The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
UBC research aims to clear the haze on cannabis use in Canada
April 19, 2016 | UBC News
As Canada prepares for the expected legalization of cannabis, a new study will examine cannabis use and provide clear guidance for creating regulations and policies. M-J Milloy, an assistant professor of medicine with the UBC Division of AIDS and a research scientist with the British Columbia Centre...
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 the rise of mu...
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), whereUN membe...
