The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Naloxone kits now available at SFU campuses
March 18, 2025 | CityNews Vancouver
Calls for increased harm reduction and overdose prevention supplies to be available at post-secondary institutions are being answered in the Lower Mainland. Back in January 2024, Vancouver-born-and-raised Cailin Sidney McIntyire-Starko was killed after fentanyl poisoning and was later found in her U...
Using Marijuana Every Day Could Help People Quit Opioids, New Study Indicates
March 05, 2025 | Marijuana Moment
A newly published study found that among drug users who experience chronic pain, daily cannabis use was linked to a higher likelihood of quitting the use of opioids—especially among men. “Participants reporting daily cannabis use exhibited higher rates of cessation compared to less frequent user...
Toxic drug deaths appear to be falling in B.C.—and no one is sure why
February 25, 2025 | CTV News
Frontline workers, drug users and experts alike are unsure why the number of reported deaths from toxic drugs appears to be decreasing in British Columbia, since the same trend is also taking place in jurisdictions with very different policies. Early this month, the BC Coroners Service announced tha...
BC Government’s Crackdown on Safe Supply Spreads Fear
February 21, 2025 | Filter
British Columbia’s provincial government has ended its take-home safe supply program for new participants, with an intention to transition existing patients to witnessed ingestion too. The program provides pharmaceutical drugs, mostly opioids, to protect people who use drugs from the acute risks o...
Vancouver’s drug decriminalisation trial has opened a debate over how to stop drug deaths
February 20, 2025 | ABC News
Canada has long had a progressive drug reform policy that has broadly been applauded by liberals everywhere. The government opened the first safe injecting room in North America in 2003, and there are now 39 across the country. Australia has just two. In 2018, Canada legalised cannabis, and in 2023 ...
