The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Health Canada warns City of Vancouver over licensing mushroom dispensary
April 11, 2024 | Business in Vancouver
Health Canada has sent a letter to Vancouver city manager Paul Mochrie over concerns that two Green Party councillors overturned a ruling of the city’s chief licence inspector to suspend the business licence of a magic mushroom dispensary. The March 15 letter obtained by Glacier Media is authored ...
A Vancouver researcher says young people need safe spaces for harm reduction
April 07, 2024 | CityNews Vancouver
A Vancouver research scientist says young people are at the centre of the toxic drug crisis and need more safe spaces to reduce harm. Danya Fast, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and research scientist at the BC Centre on Substance Use (BC...
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...
