The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Shutting Down Cannabis Compassion Clubs Hurts Patients and the Public
April 20, 2023 | The Tyee
Canadian courts have long recognized the constitutional right of people to consume cannabis to manage health conditions and symptoms. In 2001, following the landmark Ontario court decision in R. v. Parker, a federal medical cannabis program was created to ensure that people who medicate with cannab...
‘Decampment isn’t a solution to anything’: Report looks at toll of eviction on people who use drugs
April 15, 2023 | CTV News Vancouver
VANCOUVER – A new report is providing insight into the impact people who use drugs face after an eviction. The report titled, “It’s no foundation, there’s no stabilization, you’re just scattered”: A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs,...
“Everyone else is too afraid”: DULF’s unsanctioned compassion club saves lives
April 08, 2023 | Georgia Straight
Eris Nyx didn’t think she’d be spending her time running a compassion club. “I’m an artist by trade, I’m not a fucking drug dealer,” she says in a phone call with the Straight. “And I certainly don’t like doing math.” And yet, the co-founder of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF...
B.C. decriminalized drugs. How’s it been going?
April 05, 2023 | The Big Story
In today’s Big Story podcast, at the end of January, British Columbia began a pilot program that decriminalized small amounts of drugs, including cocaine and opioids. It’s the first province-wide program of its kind in Canada and it comes amidst a spiralling overdose crisis. Already, opinions on...
As Nurses, We Oppose BC’s New Paths to Forced Hospitalization
March 31, 2023 | The Tyee
When the minister of health and the minister of mental health and addictions recently announced it had amended B.C.’s Mental Health Act to create a new pathway that allows nurse practitioners to certify involuntary admission and detention, we became concerned. As nurses working in mental health ...
