The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Amazon, but for deadly drugs: Why fentanyl and W-18 are here to stay
May 24, 2016 | The Vancouver Sun
On a sunny May morning in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, it takes justeight minutes to find a fentanyl dealer. “Alan,” who speakson the condition his real name not be reported, says he has customers who seek it exclusively. For $30 to $80, he’ll sell patches of Teva or Rati...
Magic mushrooms could be used to treat depression, study says
May 23, 2016 | Cantech Letter
A range of mental health issues may benefit from treatment with psilocybin, the active ingredient found in magic mushrooms, say a new study. The research, published last week in the medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry, looked at the effect of psilocybin on patients with unipolar treatment-resistan...
Citizenship requirements and cannabis
May 23, 2016 | The Vancouver Sun
Basecannabis use warnings onscientific evidence Re: High-potency pot poses risks to the developing brain, Opinion, May 16 While we were pleased to see The Sun devote attention to the important topic of adolescent cannabis use, we were disappointed to read Dr. Diane McIntosh’s op-ed in which sh...
Tobacco, marijuana exactly the same when it comes to insurance premiums
May 22, 2016 | The Globe and Mail
Is eating a pot brownie each day to help with your chronic pain as bad for you as regularly lighting up a cigarette? Canadian life insurers say the two activities pose the same risk and demand the same higher premiums from clients. … M.J. Milloy, an infectious-disease epidemiologist studying m...
Time to confront iatrogenic opioid addiction
May 20, 2016 | Research Repository UCD
Canada has been grappling for decades in a largely ineffective attempt to keep heroin out of our borders. Now the unsafe prescribing of opioids has organized crime groups turning their attention to customers whose addiction started in the doctor’s office. Physicians are going to have to face t...
