The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Hospital policies put the lives of people who inject drugs at risk, say experts
July 21, 2016 | Healthy Debate
In 2015, Shawn was in the hospital with an abscess on his spine and a life-threatening blood infection. After waiting more than a day in the emergency department, he was withdrawing from heroin – sweating profusely, extremely anxious and in excruciating pain. “It felt like someone was cr...
Made-in-Canada approach to opioid addiction gets international attention
July 19, 2016 | CTV News
VANCOUVER – A made-in-Canada approach to treating opioid addiction is garnering positive international attention from one of the world’s most widely circulated medical publications. The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a review of guidelines developed by a pair o...
BC lifts restrictions to opioid addiction treatment drug
July 19, 2016 | The Ubyssey
Starting this month, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC lifted a regulation barrier that will improve access to Suboxone, a drug that is used to treat opioid addiction. Opioids are a class of drugs that include heroin, fentanyl and morphine. While many opioids are often prescribed as power...
BC approach to opioid addiction gets nod from prominent medical journal
July 19, 2016 | The Globe and Mail
A made-in-Canada approach to treating opioid addiction is garnering positive international attention from one of the world’s most widely circulated medical publications. The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a review of guidelines developed by a pair of health authoriti...
On the record with Dr. Seonaid Nolan
July 15, 2016 | The Vancouver Courier
Q&A with Dr. Seonaid Nolan, physician lead for addiction medicine at St. Paul’s Since 2007, Canadian health care providers, addiction experts and social workers have been calling on regulatory bodies to lift barriers that limit access to Suboxone, a substitute opioid used to counter opioi...
