The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
As Canadian drug deaths rise, programs to keep users safe face backlash
July 24, 2024 | Reuters
TORONTO, July 24 (Reuters) – Years into a drug overdose crisis, Canada is facing backlash against government-sanctioned programs such as legal injection sites designed to keep users alive without curtailing drug use. The British Columbia government has walked back a pilot project to decriminal...
Innovative model of addictions care expands throughout B.C.
July 22, 2024 | BC Government News
A made-in-B.C. model of addictions care, which is improving the way people access services, is expanding. Road to Recovery establishes a seamless continuum of care for addictions from detox to treatment and after care. The expansion will include 100 substance-use treatment beds and outpatient servic...
The War Over Safe Drug Supply in Vancouver
July 15, 2024 | Maclean's Magazine
Eris Nyx has always been rebellious. Growing up in the suburbs outside of Toronto in the mid-2000s, she spent much of her adolescence using drugs, getting into trouble with police and crashing at friends’ houses. Her transgender identity wasn’t accepted at home, and after high school she moved a...
Could B.C.’s safe drug supply experiment work in Washington?
July 15, 2024 | Crosscut (Cascade PBS)
If you met BeeLee Lee in the lobby of her apartment building in Vancouver, British Columbia, you probably wouldn’t suspect that just a few years ago, she nearly died several times from fentanyl overdoses. Lee, who’s nearly always accompanied by Sadie, her loyal labrador/husky companion, now has ...
Health experts bristle as Poilievre pledges drug consumption site restrictions
July 12, 2024 | CTV News Vancouver
Ratcheting up the rhetoric amid a toxic drug crisis which has claimed the lives of thousands of people over the last decade, Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would cancel federal funding for drug consumption sites. He also says he’d shut down any sites where he claims they enda...
