The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
BC prisoners get addiction therapy after settlement in charter challenge
April 15, 2016 | 680 News
VANCOUVER – Prisoners struggling with opiate addictions in British Columbia jails have gained the same right to medical treatment as people outside the corrections system. BC Corrections has implemented a new policy after four men who alleged they were denied opiate replacement therapy launche...
Pulse FM: Interview with Pauline Voon on BC’s opioid crisis
April 13, 2016 | Pulse FM
Kash Heed speaks with Pauline Voon, who totes an impressive resume as a Registered Nurse, Research Associate with the Addiction and Urban Health Research Initiative, Addiction Nursing Fellow with the St. Paul’s Hospital Goldcorp Fellowship in Addiction Medicine, and Doctoral Student in the Sch...
Opioids: A national crisis needs a federal response
April 11, 2016 | The Globe and Mail
Pauline Voon is a Registered Nurse and research associate at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and doctoral student in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. On March 7, Health Minister Jane Philpott received a letter from U.S. senators urging Canad...
More training for physicians key to fighting fentanyl addiction, BC doctor says
April 11, 2016 | CBC News
Dr. Seonaid Seonaid Nolanays doctors who prescribe opiates need to understand potential impact on streets According to a BC fentanyl addiction expert, Manitoba doctors need to consider the long-term consequences before they prescribe opiates. Dr.SeonaidNolan is a clinical assistant professor at the ...
Are supervised drug injection sites a wild idea?
April 03, 2016 | The Seattle Times
Since Vancouver, BC, injection site opened, the city found more drug users entered detoxification programs, and overdose deaths in the area around the facility dropped. As Seattle and other U.S. cities struggle with escalating overdose epidemics, some policymakers are considering taking the radical ...
