The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Vancouver Safe Supply Program Begins Prescribing Take-Home Fentanyl
April 13, 2022 | Filter
Despite efforts to make medical safe supply programs in Canada as low-barrier as possible, they still require most participants to make daily trips into the clinic or a pharmacy to pick up their prescriptions, and consume them under supervision. Now, Vancouver’s PHS Community Services Society has ...
Should youth addicted to drugs be forced into care? Family, advocates divided
April 10, 2022 | Vancouver Sun
Families and advocates of youth addicted to illicit drugs are divided over whether minors should be forced into so-called secure care to stabilize them before longer-term voluntary treatment could be provided. Laws vary across Canada for what amounts to involuntary detox for minors who are sometimes...
Opinion: Two-tiered health system is here – and it’s making the overdose crisis worse
April 08, 2022 | Vancouver Is Awesome
Canadians like to believe that our health care system is the envy of the world: high quality, equitable, and – best of all – free to access. If you look just a little closer, though, the cracks and gaps in our system show, especially when it comes to substance use and addiction. Those gaps revea...
Cannacurious ep # 5: What we really know about cannabis three years into legalization
April 08, 2022 | CKNW - Mornings with Simi
Harm reduction is a tool that meets drug users where they are and can be used to help people that use drugs to stop using. So can cannabis play a role in harm reduction strategies? Eric talked to Professor Dr. Eugenia Socías, Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use....
Drug users in Vancouver respond to targeted effort to ramp up vaccination rate
April 07, 2022 | Vancouver Sun
Efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccines to as many drug users as possible in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have paid off, prompting an advocate to urge communities with similar, vulnerable populations across the country to learn lessons from a targeted, well-resourced approach. Karen Ward said a stud...
