The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
US should follow Canada’s lead on heroin treatment
March 23, 2016 | The New York Times
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The crisis that led officials in Ithaca, N.Y., to consider opening a supervised-injection center for heroin users, part of what the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called a national epidemic of overdose deaths, is sadly familiar to us ...
Vancouver’s supervised injection site, the first in North America, opened 13 years ago. What’s changed?
March 20, 2016 | The National Post
VANCOUVER – On a recent afternoon, a woman sat on the sidewalk, steps from this city’s supervised drug-injection facility, Insite, pant leg rolled up, needle in hand. A young man walked by and casually offered a reporter a ball of speed. A short time later, three police cars swooped in t...
Locked up and dope sick: BC prisoners fight for addiction treatment
March 18, 2016 | VICE News
Laura Shaver had a heroin habit for years. Sometimes that meant going into opiate withdrawal in a British Columbia jail: “You’re in a 4′ by 4′ cement cell. It’s way too hot or way too cold and you don’t get a proper blanket. You don’t know what’s happe...
BC prisoners seek to expedite addiction-treatment drugs
March 18, 2016 | The Globe and Mail
Four opioid-addicted prisoners are challenging a BC Corrections policy they say impedes swift access to medication that could treat their addictions, putting them at risk of overdose – and death. … Keith Ahamad, an addiction physician at St. Paul’s Hospital and the BC Centre for Ex...
The journey to ending HIV and AIDS
March 15, 2016 | The Concordian
With medicine and harm-reduction techniques, the virus may soon be a thing of the past The last recorded national statistics for those living with HIV/AIDS in Canada reported 2,570 new cases, according to the AIDS Committee of Toronto. As found by national HIV estimates, by the end of 2014 an estima...
