The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
A researcher followed 20 young people living on Vancouver streets. Half of them died.
March 25, 2024 | Vancouver Sun
Dom, a charismatic and “painfully tired” 16-year-old, liked the video games he could play and the TVs he could watch in a specialized B.C. Children’s Hospital program for teens who’d had life-threatening overdoses. In his short lifetime, Dom had been in countless drop-in centres, treatment p...
How exactly is an overdose prevention site established in B.C.?
March 23, 2024 | Vancouver Is Awesome
For all the failures the Auditor General of B.C. found in the provincial government’s implementation of overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites, it did not look at one key aspect that boiled over into controversy most recently in Richmond: that is, how exactly is the establishment o...
On living and dying young in Vancouver
March 19, 2024 | The Georgia Straight
The following is excerpted with permission from the book “The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver” by Danya Fast. The book collects and captures the stories of young people in Vancouver, sharing their experiences, hopes, and dreams in their voices as they...
‘Deficiencies’ in overdose prevention programs: auditor general
March 19, 2024 | CBC News
British Columbia’s auditor general says two government programs aimed at curbing the death toll from the toxic-drug crisis were not “effectively implemented” by the province’s Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and Ministry of Health. Michael Pickup’s office released a report Tuesda...
‘In a way, stigma is the leading cause of death’: the radical plan to tackle British Columbia’s overdose epidemic
March 07, 2024 | The Guardian
When Traci Letts finally found the perfect shoes for her son Mike – a pair of white Nike trainers with a splash of green – the store didn’t have the right size. So she went to another. “They had to be just right,” she said. “He always wanted to dress well.” The high-top shoes completed...
