The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Canada Releases First Smoking Cessation Guideline for Adults
August 26, 2025 | Medscape
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has released practical guidance, along with a menu of options, to help adults quit smoking tobacco. The guideline includes evidence-based behavioral and drug therapies — and for the first time, a natural health product, cytisine — that can be tai...
Caring for young people during a toxic drug crisis: Q&A with Dr. Danya Fast
August 22, 2025 | BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
“It’s important to discuss the toxicity of the drug supply,” says Dr. Danya Fast, an investigator at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. In 2007, she started her research with people as young as 13 years old who use drugs in the context of unstable housing and homelessness. A medical...
Trade workers among those most susceptible to toxic drug deaths: B.C. Coroners Service
August 02, 2025 | CBC British Columbia
The B.C. Coroners Service has released data on the toxic drug crisis showing the occupations of those who died over a three-year span in the province. As Michelle Morton reports, trade workers are seeing the largest numbers of drug fatalities. [Video]...
Crackdown: A revolutionary testament from the frontlines of the drug war
July 29, 2025 | Spring Magazine
In a political moment when right-wing forces mobilize to dismantle even the most modest harm reduction measures, Garth Mullins’ memoir-manifesto arrives as an essential weapon of resistance, exposing the brutal violence of prohibition while charting a path toward collective liberation through user...
‘Public is not picking this up’: Study warns of rise in stimulant-related deaths
July 16, 2025 | CTV News
A growing number of overdose deaths in North America involve a dangerous combination of opioids and stimulants, a trend that researchers in a new study are calling a “silent epidemic.” Led by the University of Alberta, the study warns that while public attention remains focused on opioids like...
