The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Le Telejournal: interview with Dr. Keith Ahamad on addiction treatment
July 11, 2016 | ICI Radio
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Crise des surdoses en C.-B. : Tous les medecins peuvent prescrire le Suboxone
July 06, 2016 | ICI Radio
Le College des medecins et chirurgiens de la Colombie-Britannique a aboli les restrictions entourant la prescription de Suboxone, une substance qui permet d’aider les toxicomanes a controler leur dependance a la drogue et qui contient de la naloxone, un antipoison contre les surdoses d’o...
BC doctors can more easily prescribe Suboxone
July 06, 2016 | Global News
VANCOUVER – The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia is relaxing its regulations covering access to a drug that can help treat heroin addiction. On its website, the college says physicians no longer need a special exemption to prescribe Suboxone or its generic versions. Paper...
Could supervised injections help San Francisco’s homeless drug users?
June 29, 2016 | CityLab
Cities across the U.S. are pondering legalized, sterile street-drug injection sites to fight the overdose epidemic. A 35-year-old man with a history of mental illness found cold on the sidewalk. A 38-year-old man cocooned in a blanket on the street, who neighbors heard “moaning” before g...
How doctors and big pharma helped create North America’s fentanyl crisis
June 22, 2016 | VICE News
Before fentanyl became the latest villain in a full-blown overdose crisis in Canada, Kelly Lanktree was in need of something to numb the excruciating pain in her knee. She had tumbled down stairs at work in 2009 and her doctor steered her towards OxyContin. The drug, she found, was not only effectiv...
