The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
How Should We Handle the Toxic Drug-Supply Crisis? Experts Weigh In.
July 10, 2023 | The Good Men Project
Recent news coverage has highlighted the deepening divide in the politics of the toxic drug-supply crisis. In Alberta, the United Conservative Party is moving ahead with plans to enact the controversial Compassionate Intervention Act. The act gives police and family members the ability to refer adu...
B.C.’s new shelter rate a good start, but doesn’t go nearly far enough: advocates
July 07, 2023 | Global News
Advocates say a boost in the amount of financial support British Columbians on income assistance get for housing is a welcome first step, but won’t do much in B.C.’s brutal housing market. As of July 1, the “shelter rate,” the portion of income assistance offered for housing needs, is ri...
Richmond-born activist fights stigma of drug addiction
June 28, 2023 | Richmond News
One had a legal gun, the other an illegal one. An early-morning armed robbery at Denny’s in Vancouver, an arrest and an eventual acquittal due to a technicality is the mutual history of two Richmond sons in the early 1990s – one as a cop, the other as an armed robber. But to see them chatting ov...
How should we handle the toxic drug-supply crisis? Experts weigh in.
June 28, 2023 | Healthy Debate
Recent news coverage has highlighted the deepening divide in the politics of the toxic drug-supply crisis. In Alberta, the United Conservative Party is moving ahead with plans to enact the controversial Compassionate Intervention Act. The act gives police and family members the ability to refer adu...
Mixed Picture of Benzodiazepine-Related Toxicity in Ontario
June 22, 2023 | Medscape
The rate of benzodiazepine-related toxicity in Ontario, Canada, has decreased overall but has increased among young people, data indicate. In a population-based, cross-sectional study that included almost 26,000 patients, the age-standardized rate of benzodiazepine-related toxicity per 100,000 popul...
