The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Making health care work for people with opioid use disorder
March 01, 2022 | UBC Faculty of Medicine
Every morning, BeeLee visits the Molson Overdose Prevention Site on Vancouver’s Downtown East Side to receive injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) for her opioid use disorder. She takes a seat inside the clinic and a nurse practitioner administers a prescription dose of hydromorphone. Chatti...
Why medical training is key to reducing drug overdose deaths in B.C.
February 23, 2022 | Infotel Kelowna
There’s no question that there’s a lot of pain and suffering in the world. When B.C. residents turn to health care professionals to help them deal with physical pain, they are all too often consulting someone with no formal training in the use of opioids. That’s part of the reason that drug ov...
Amidst Drug Crisis, Calls for Bold Safe Supply Spending Go Unheeded
February 22, 2022 | The Tyee
Today’s B.C. budget indicates no change in its approach to the worsening toxic drug crisis despite unprecedented deaths and calls for bold spending to expand safe supply. An average of seven people are now dying each day, with 2,224 more deaths in 2021. It was the most fatal year recorded after 1...
Some Pa. cannabis companies use misleading, inaccurate or dangerous statements to promote marijuana for addiction treatment
February 21, 2022 | Centre Daily Times
HARRISBURG — Some Pennsylvania cannabis companies are using incomplete or misleading claims to promote marijuana as a treatment for opioid addiction, potentially putting patients’ lives at greater risk, a Spotlight PA investigation has found. In a first-of-its-kind review, Spotlight PA examined ...
Scale up B.C. drug-checking programs to save lives: centre on substance use
February 19, 2022 | Winnipeg Free Press
VANCOUVER – Checking illicit drugs for deadly toxins is the best option to prevent fatal overdoses without a safer supply, but that service should be expanded to rural and remote communities in British Columbia, says the manager of a drug-checking program being evaluated by the BC Centre for S...
