The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Panel calls for urgent action on safer drug supply in B.C. to prevent overdoses
March 09, 2022 | Winnipeg Free Press
VICTORIA – A report into an investigation of 6,007 overdose deaths in British Columbia calls on the province to urgently develop a policy to distribute a safer supply of drugs and offer better health supports with a plan that would see action taken over 30, 60 and 90 days. The death review pan...
Experts Reject BC’s Safe Supply Claims
March 03, 2022 | The Tyee
Seventeen months after the B.C. government committed to expanding safe supply, only about 500 people are able to access real replacements for increasingly poisoned drugs. In February, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson said 12,000 people had been prescribed what she has calle...
Opinion: Why the drug supply is still killing people in B.C.
March 01, 2022 | Vancouver Is Awesome
Last year was the deadliest year ever for illicit drug overdoses in B.C. and, as we’ll likely soon learn when official data is released, for all of Canada. In 2021, nearly seven British Columbians died every day from using illicit drugs. In Canada, the number is almost 20 each day. More people ar...
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...
