The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
BC increases access to addiction treatment Suboxone
October 13, 2015 | BC Government News
People seeking treatment for an addiction to opioid drugs such as heroin, oxycodone or fentanyl now have easier access to a medication that helps them to stop using and to rebuild their lives, Health Minister Terry Lake announced today. British Columbia’s public drug plan, PharmaCare, now covers t...
Rigid medical standards for marijuana slammed by experts
October 09, 2015 | The Star
VANCOUVER – The Canadian Medical Association and the federal government apply a far more rigid standard to prescribing marijuana than other drugs, resulting in negative – or even deadly – consequences, say experts from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Medical marijuana is held to a di...
Reticence about marijuana risks lives: Researchers
October 09, 2015 | RCI
Canadian doctors should prescribe medical marijuana instead of opioids which may lead to addiction and overdose deaths, say experts from the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. ‘Unnecessarily strict standards’ Centre researchers accuse the Canadian government and doctors of riski...
Researchers urge medical marijuana over opioids to treat neuropathic pain
October 09, 2015 | The Globe and Mail
Canadian doctors should use medical marijuana instead of frequently abused opioids to treat patients with neuropathic pain and a host of other conditions cannabis has been proven to combat, Vancouver-based HIV/AIDS researchers argue in a newly published editorial. Thomas Kerr, Julio Montaner and Ste...
Research supports medical marijuana as pain medication: HIV/AIDS doctors
October 09, 2015 | The Vancouver Sun
A commentary by HIV/AIDS experts in Vancouver says the Canadian Medical Association is shortchanging patients in pain by not endorsing marijuana as a viable treatment. There’s enough evidence to consider medical marijuana for pain, although the national organization representing doctors says there...
