The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
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...
Spike of unregulated drugs mixed with benzodiazepines creating targeted violence: experts
February 12, 2022 | CityNews
Vulnerable people who use unregulated drugs in B.C. are not only at risk of dying from the illicit toxic supply, but are facing risks to their safety like gender-based violence, according to advocates and health care professionals. Along with the alarming provincial reports that 2,224 people died of...
What is safe supply? A look at what B.C. drug users, advocates are demanding
February 11, 2022 | Vancouver Sun
B.C.’s chief coroner renewed a call for access to safe, regulated pharmaceutical alternatives this week as she reported a record number of overdose deaths from toxic, illicit drugs. “In order to save lives in this public-health emergency, we need to provide people with access to the substances t...
