The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Key tools to prevent opioid overdoses are missing from Ottawa’s orders to tackle the crisis, advocates say
December 21, 2021 | Toronto Star
As many as 4,000 Canadians could die from opioid-related overdoses in the first half of 2022, according to new modelling projections. Yet two of the key issues that advocates say must be tackled by Ottawa in order to get the crisis under control — decriminalization and safe supply — are absent f...
B.C.’s functional and psychedelic mushroom industry is having a shroom boom
December 14, 2021 | BCBusiness
Craig and Brandi Garden, co-founders of Surrey-based Eversio Wellness, are big believers in functional mushrooms He may have the right name for the job, but it took Craig Garden some time to find his passion. The Surrey native spent years as a project manager for various consulting firms before he ...
Government Policies Blamed as Toxic Drug Deaths Soar
December 10, 2021 | Toronto Star
Five years after B.C. declared a public health emergency, toxic drugs are killing more people than ever before. The BC Coroners Service reported today that 201 people died in October, the most ever recorded in a single month. This brought 2021’s total number of deaths to 1,782. Last year had previ...
Opinion: Get politics out of public health
December 09, 2021 | Vancouver Is Awesome
This week the BC Coroners Service shared the latest overdose death count: 201 people died in October from illicit drug poisonings. That’s the highest number of fatalities in a single month during what has already been the single worst year of what is now the fifth year of the worst drug crisis in ...
B.C. sets record for suspected illicit-drug overdose deaths in October
December 09, 2021 | Georgia Straight
The number of illicit-drug overdose deaths continues to climb in B.C. Today (December 9), the B.C. Coroners Service revealed that there were 201 suspected fatalities from tainted street drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine, illicit fentanyl, et cetera. That’s the highest total...
