The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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 ...
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 here...
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 to arrest...
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 happening. You shit yourself, you puk...
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 Excellence in ...
