The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Alberta’s rural communities grapple with alcohol harm amid drug focus
November 25, 2025 | St. Albert Gazette
Alberta government investments report billions on drug recovery infrastructure and enforcement over the past three years, while investing far less in alcohol harm reduction, leaving rural communities with education campaigns instead of treatment options. “Alcohol shatters families and destroys co...
Experts call for free nasal naloxone across B.C., as pilot project outcome uncertain
November 24, 2025 | CBC News
From training thousands of students how to use injectable naloxone, Chloe Goodison has seen how daunting it can be for them to administer — even just when practising. Students express worries that their hand will shake or they’ll forget the steps, fear of needles, or that they’ll do somethin...
This Vancouver hospital is transforming addiction treatment
November 21, 2025 | CBC Radio - White Coat Black Art
Dr. Paxton Bach has spent years trying to help people navigate a broken system. Inconsistent approaches to withdrawal management, long wait times for detox and recovery programs and a system that struggles to address the social determinants of health have caused too many of his patients to fall thro...
Rob Shaw: B.C. abandons compassion club it funded as founders face drug convictions
November 19, 2025 | Business in Vancouver
When a B.C. Supreme Court justice found the two founders of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) guilty on drug trafficking charges earlier this month, the provincial government’s top health officials were not in the courtroom, and nowhere to be found. Which is odd, given that the very activities...
Vancouver mayor credits DTES task force with reducing overdoses. Here’s what public health experts say
November 19, 2025 | CTV News
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim continues to laud the impacts of a police-led task force focused on crime on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, claiming it led to a reduction in overdoses. At a Nov. 5 council meeting, Sim relayed data from Vancouver Fire Rescue Services that from February to August, the first...
