The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Vancouver Activists Hand Out Drugs, Demand Better Safe Supply Options
July 19, 2021 | Filter
On July 14 Jean Swanson, a city councillor of Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), helped to hand out free heroin during a protest downtown. She joined a group anti-drug war activists who are demanding that BC create a true safe supply of drugs. Members of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) and the ...
Researchers launch study into COVID-19 vaccine uptake and efficacy in vulnerable urban populations
July 14, 2021 | UBC News
British Columbia is in the midst of two public health emergencies. While the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues across the province and country, fatal drug poisonings have been on the rise. Researchers with UBC and the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU)—in partnership with the BC Centre for Diseas...
Informed Pharmacists Are Key for Drug Users. A New Program Will Train Them
July 02, 2021 | The Tyee
Dean Wilson has visited the same pharmacy every day for the last 20 years. The longtime drug reform activist said he’s stayed with the same pharmacist for decades to get his methadone each morning, because he trusts them. “It’s become part of my routine,” Wilson said. Wilson works as a peer-...
‘Immense challenge’: Trying to save the lives of B.C. drug users, hit hard by COVID-19 and the overdose crisis
June 18, 2021 | Vancouver Sun
Christopher composes bluesy funk music in his notebook while waiting for treatment at an addictions clinic in St. Paul’s Hospital. He’s tired of chasing a fentanyl high and grateful for the second chance he’s being offered by the medical staff. “I wouldn’t be alive without it,” Christoph...
Shoppers Drug Mart steps up with UBC, BCCSU to improve addiction treatment and care
June 10, 2021 | Canada NewsWire
TORONTO, June 10, 2021 /CNW/ – Shoppers Drug Mart Inc (“Shoppers Drug Mart”) is stepping up to improve addiction treatment and care for all Canadians by supporting pharmacist training and education led by the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU). A $2 million gift f...
