The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Overdose crisis gave prescription fentanyl an unfair rap, pain expert says
May 25, 2016 | CBC News
But BC doctor argues that opioid epidemic has its origins in doctors’ offices A pain specialist says the explosion of fatal overdoses from illegal opioids across the continent has unfairly stigmatized prescription fentanyl. … “Theprescriptionopioidproblem throughout North America n...
Amazon, but for deadly drugs: Why fentanyl and W-18 are here to stay
May 24, 2016 | The Vancouver Sun
On a sunny May morning in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, it takes justeight minutes to find a fentanyl dealer. “Alan,” who speakson the condition his real name not be reported, says he has customers who seek it exclusively. For $30 to $80, he’ll sell patches of Teva or Rati...
Magic mushrooms could be used to treat depression, study says
May 23, 2016 | Cantech Letter
A range of mental health issues may benefit from treatment with psilocybin, the active ingredient found in magic mushrooms, say a new study. The research, published last week in the medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry, looked at the effect of psilocybin on patients with unipolar treatment-resistan...
Citizenship requirements and cannabis
May 23, 2016 | The Vancouver Sun
Basecannabis use warnings onscientific evidence Re: High-potency pot poses risks to the developing brain, Opinion, May 16 While we were pleased to see The Sun devote attention to the important topic of adolescent cannabis use, we were disappointed to read Dr. Diane McIntosh’s op-ed in which sh...
Tobacco, marijuana exactly the same when it comes to insurance premiums
May 22, 2016 | The Globe and Mail
Is eating a pot brownie each day to help with your chronic pain as bad for you as regularly lighting up a cigarette? Canadian life insurers say the two activities pose the same risk and demand the same higher premiums from clients. … M.J. Milloy, an infectious-disease epidemiologist studying m...
