The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
CBC: Interview with Dr. Kanna Hayashi on fatal overdose
May 19, 2016 | CBC News
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Drug overdose survivors more likely to die of subsequent overdose: BC study
May 19, 2016 | The Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER – British Columbia researchers have determined a straightforward method for health-care professionals to effectively identify people at a heightened risk of dying from a future drug overdose. Scientists at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV-AIDS revealed those who have recently surv...
How one person’s drug addiction affects their entire family
May 18, 2016 | CBC News
June Ariano-Jakes, author of Addiction: A Mother’s Story, Dr. Keith Ahamad, a family physician certified in addiction medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital, and Doug Mackenzie, program director at Options Okanagan Treatment Centre, on drug addiction....
Psychiatric drugs killing more users than heroin, cocaine, say health experts
May 17, 2016 | The Vancouver Sun
Health professionals are sounding the alarm over the heightened risk of death linked to the use of psychiatric drugs, which was highlighted in a pair of Vancouver-based studies published this month. Benzodiazepine (BZD) is a class of psychiatric medications known as “tranquilizers” whi...
CBC: Interview with Dr. Thomas Kerr on safe injection sites
May 16, 2016 | CBC News
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