The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Overlooked, under-analysed: Overdose reversals saving hundreds in B.C.’s opioid crisis
June 10, 2021 | CityNews (News 1130)
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Gilliana Soto has lost so many loved ones to the opioid crisis. She almost lost herself, too. Her first and last overdose was enough to make her realize she needed to change. “It was like a light switch. It was like, I was losing my kids … I’m still trying to repair t...
BC’s Opioid Substitution System Isn’t a System at All, Say Frontliners
June 08, 2021 | The Tyee
Laura Shaver’s phone rings at all hours. It rings when she and her partner are dealing with mould in their apartment, interrupting texts to their landlord. Calls from Ontario come in at six in the morning, where it’s already an acceptable time to do business but Shaver is still asleep. She’s j...
‘Why would the numbers be lower?’: Advocate says B.C. toxic drug deaths will continue without gov’t action
June 01, 2021 | CityNews (News 1130)
VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) — Leslie McBain is heartbroken but not surprised that 176 people in B.C. died from toxic, illicit drugs in April, saying deaths will continue to set devastating records until the province changes its response. On Tuesday, the BC Coroners Service announced one of the highest mo...
Thomas Kerr and Garth Mullins: The Vancouver model of decriminalization leaves out those who need it most
May 27, 2021 | Vancouver Sun
In response to the ongoing and escalating overdose crisis, the City of Vancouver recently announced its intention to apply to the federal government to decriminalize personal possession of small amounts of drugs. The decriminalization of drug possession has been recommended by a range of internat...
‘No one’s listening’: As opioid-related deaths surge in Canada, advocates say there’s little gov’t support
May 21, 2021 | CBC - The Current
Zoe Dodd knows how painful it is to lose someone to the opioid crisis. In the past week and half alone, three people she knew died of an overdose. The Toronto-based harm reduction worker said she’s been so traumatized by the opioid crisis this past year that she had to take three months off ...
