The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Toxic-drug death rate at a four-year-low, B.C. Coroners Service says
July 30, 2024 | Times Colonist
The number of people who died from toxic drug poisonings in the first half of this year is down from the same period last year, and the overall death rate is at a four-year low, according to new data from the B.C. Coroners Service. There were 1,158 deaths by June of this year, down from 1,279 in the...
Analysis: What’s at stake as battle over opioid crisis erupts in London
July 26, 2024 | London Free Press
Political silence when the Conservative Party of Canada accuses a London doctor and founder of a harm-reduction program of lying and calls for her medical licence to be revoked. A police news conference where a small percentage of the drug provided by the program gets far more attention that much...
As Canadian drug deaths rise, programs to keep users safe face backlash
July 24, 2024 | Reuters
TORONTO, July 24 (Reuters) – Years into a drug overdose crisis, Canada is facing backlash against government-sanctioned programs such as legal injection sites designed to keep users alive without curtailing drug use. The British Columbia government has walked back a pilot project to decriminal...
Innovative model of addictions care expands throughout B.C.
July 22, 2024 | BC Government News
A made-in-B.C. model of addictions care, which is improving the way people access services, is expanding. Road to Recovery establishes a seamless continuum of care for addictions from detox to treatment and after care. The expansion will include 100 substance-use treatment beds and outpatient servic...
The War Over Safe Drug Supply in Vancouver
July 15, 2024 | Maclean's Magazine
Eris Nyx has always been rebellious. Growing up in the suburbs outside of Toronto in the mid-2000s, she spent much of her adolescence using drugs, getting into trouble with police and crashing at friends’ houses. Her transgender identity wasn’t accepted at home, and after high school she moved a...
