The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Teens, Young Adults Are Less Likely to Receive Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
December 08, 2021 | Clinical Advisor
Adolescents and young adults are less likely to be prescribed medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) compared with older adults, with access barriers linked to Black race, Hispanic and Latino ethnicity, living in the South, and involvement in the criminal justice system, according to findings re...
Open more overdose prevention sites in urban and rural areas across Canada: study
December 02, 2021 | Toronto Star
VANCOUVER – Researchers in British Columbia say the expansion of overdose prevention sites in Vancouver led to immediate behaviour changes among some drug users as they entered addiction treatment and decreased the number of times they injected substances in public or shared syringes. Their st...
Touesnard, Sutherland and Richardson: Canada’s new minister of mental health and addictions can end the overdose crisis. Here’s how
November 30, 2021 | Ottawa Citizen
It is distressing that the toxic drug poisoning deaths of more than 22,000 Canadians were not a bigger issue in the recent federal election, especially when government policy is a driving factor behind those preventable deaths. The newly created federal Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions must ...
How Diverting Opioids Can Be Harm Reduction
November 22, 2021 | Talking Drugs
What cops and regulators consider to be the boogeyman of the Canadian overdose crisis is in fact a tactic that criminalized drug consumers and their advocates believe is a means of survival in the face of an ever-more potent, volatile illicit drug supply. They’re talking about ‘diversion’, the...
Minister Bennett says national opioid crisis plan to be informed by proposals in B.C.
November 19, 2021 | Yahoo News Canada
OTTAWA — Canada’s new minister of mental health and addictions says she is very interested in proposals from British Columbia on how to proceed with a plan for addressing the opioid crisis. Asked about specifically when action will be taken, Carolyn Bennett did not respond directly,but said ...
