The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Rethinking the war on drugs
April 19, 2016 | CBC News
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Canadian prisoners with opiate addiction are allowed to have methadone treatment
April 19, 2016 | Lawyer Herald
Prisoners in British Columbia now have access to the same opiate addiction treatment as people outside the prison have. Correction Department implemented policy to let them have a Methadone treatment to cure addiction. Previously, asGlobal News Canada reported, four inmates who claimed they were all...
Should the government give heroin addicts a place to shoot up?
April 18, 2016 | The Atlantic
That’s the conclusion that reader Thomas approaches in his comprehensive case for “decriminalizing or legalizing all drugs”: Not only has the global War On Drugs been an exorbitant waste of money, it has fueled the rise of mass incarceration, broken families and communities, and th...
Is it time to end the war on drugs?
April 18, 2016 | IFL Science
Drugshave beencast as the enemy in a global “war”over public health andmorality, while behind closed doors levels of narcotic use continue to rise – along with themanydangersassociated with their consumption. On the eve of a United NationsGeneralAssembly Special Session (UNGASS), w...
Supreme Court of Canada strikes down mandatory minimum sentencing law for drug traffickers
April 15, 2016 | VICE News
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled mandatory minimum sentences for repeat drug traffickers are unconstitutional. The decision, one of two released Friday morning, overturns a policy brought in under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper that forced judges to hand down a minimum of one year in jail...
