The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Crime bill panned by scientists, doctors
February 09, 2011 | Kamloops Daily News
“Non-evidence-based policies” is how a letter signed by more than 500 health professionals describes a federal plan to lock up more drug offenders for longer sentences. In other words, Bill S-10, the Penalties for Organized Crime Act, won’t work as intended, they argue. Dr. Paul Ha...
Overdose deaths declined since 1990s
January 28, 2011 | The Vancouver Courier
A total of 274 people died of drug overdoses in Vancouver between 2005 and 2009, according to preliminary statistics released to the Courier by the BC Coroners Service. Though the number of deaths is significant, Thomas Kerr, a research scientist for the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, said th...
First Nations figure prominently in drug fatalities
January 20, 2011 | Westender
First Nations people – particularly women – are more likely to die from a drug overdose in British Columbia than non-aboriginal people, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by the Urban Health Research Initiative, a program operating out of the BC Centre for Excellence in HI...
Fatal drug overdoses falling across BC, but still high among First Nations
January 06, 2011 | The Vancouver Sun
More than 900 BC residents died from accidental drug overdoses between 2001 and 2005, but the first Canadian study to examine such deaths showed that they fell by almost half in 2005. The study, by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, also found that people from first nations accounted for a di...
Injecting truth: RCMP and the truth about safe injection sites
August 20, 2010 | Maclean's
It would have been quite a news conference, and it very nearly happened. Last fall, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, after months of intense, private talks, agreed to face the media together to declare their agreement that research shows t...
