The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Editorial: The case for supervised injection, treatment
January 08, 2016 | The Times Colonist
Drug addiction remains a major public health challenge in many settings throughout the world, including in Victoria. Too often, policy-makers have failed to respond quickly to drug-related harm with interventions that have been found to be effective through carefully conducted research. This failure...
CFAX 1070: interview with Dr. Keith Ahamad on addiction medicine
January 07, 2016 | CFAX 1070
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Grieving Burnaby family joins those warning of danger of fentanyl
January 04, 2016 | The Times Colonist
2015 is shaping up to be BC’s deadliest year for fentanyl-related deaths. In recent years, fentanyl rose from relative obscurity to become a lethal street drug linked to more than 1,000 drug poisoning deaths across Canada between 2009 and 2014, with more than half of those deaths occurring in ...
Canada’s safe injection center brings drug addicts ‘out of the alleys’
December 17, 2015 | CNN
Vancouver (CNN)“People need to feel comfortable using.” These are the words of Darwin Fisher, manager of InSite, a supervised injection facility in Vancouver, Canada. Here, Fisher manages 13 booths, each one lined with mirrors and bright bulbs resembling those of a dressing room — ...
Editorial: Evan Wood – bringing change to addiction medicine
November 27, 2015 | The Lancet
Evan Wood had not thought much about a career in medicine having studied geography, but an assignment to chart the diffusion of HIV around Vancouver, Canada, got him hooked on clinical epidemiology. Today Wood is Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a leader of addiction m...
