The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Canada to Fund Research on Psilocybin for Substance Use Disorder
May 03, 2022 | Filter
Applications have opened for Canadian researchers seeking federal funding to study psilocybin treatments for substance use disorder (SUD), as well as for depression and end-of-life distress. The grants mark the first time federal funding has been provided for psilocybin studies of this kind. “Psyc...
Alberta safe supply committee report not up to standards, experts say
May 02, 2022 | CBC News
A government-commissioned report examining safe supply of drugs is coming under fire from a group of addiction scientists and clinicians who say the work is deeply flawed. In January, an Alberta legislative committee began studying whether safe supply programs could reduce drug poisoning deaths i...
Borders and barriers in harm reduction
April 26, 2022 | University of Victoria News
Drug-checking programs can track the flow of fentanyl across North America—and shine a light on new substances that could make the drug-poisoning crisis more deadly. Mexico and Canada may be physically separated by thousands of kilometres, but people like Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira are working t...
Fentanyl-laced cocaine appears in B.C. amid calls for safe supply
April 21, 2022 | DATAC
In recent weeks, Substance UVic, a drug testing lab based in Victoria, B.C. has issued a public warning on social media after dangerous and potentially fatal levels of fentanyl were detected in multiple samples of cocaine. The lab is a part of a research project carried out by University of Victoria...
4/20: Cannabis could be safe alternative to toxic drug supply, so why is access being cut off?
April 20, 2022 | Georgia Straight
As British Columbia struggles to implement and scale-up safer supply programs to blunt the unprecedented overdose crisis, why is provincial law enforcement shutting down community-level groups providing a safer supply of cannabis to people at greatest risk of overdose? At the beginning of March,...
