The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Prescribed heroin offers answer for worst addicts: Study
May 28, 2010 | Reuters
(Reuters) – Prescribing heroin to chronic addicts may be politically sensitive, but it is more effective than the substitute methadone at keeping drug abusers in treatment programmes, British scientists said on Friday. Researchers who studied different ways of treating heroin addiction said th...
On-site heroin urged for chronic addicts
May 28, 2010 | CBC News
Supervised medical treatment with heroin leads to significantly lower use of street heroin by chronic addicts than does injected or oral methadone, according to a study to be published Friday in the medical journal, Lancet. The randomized controlled trial involved heroin addicts who were receiving c...
Giving some addicts heroin may be more effective than methadone to break habit
May 28, 2010 | The Canadian Press
LONDON – Some heroin addicts who got the drug under medical supervision had a better chance of kicking the habit than those who got methadone, a new study says. In a British study of 127 people who previously failed to beat their addiction, scientists gave them either injectable heroin or meth...
Conservatives should get weak on drugs
April 26, 2010 | The National Post
Citizens from across the political spectrum have largely considered illicit drugs such as cocaine and marijuana a grave threat to Canadian society. Accordingly, promises to get tough on drugs are proven vote-spinners for politicians coast-to-coast. Not surprisingly, the mandatory minimum sentences f...
Mandatory minimums won’t curtail illicit drugs
April 15, 2010 | The Toronto Star
By Dr. Evan Wood Illicit drugs represent one of the greatest threats to community health, and recent examples of drug-related violence across Canada show the toll continues to mount: A double slaying in picturesque Old Montreal has the hallmarks of a professional hit. Winnipeg police warn of “...
