The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Improved accessibility to methadone treatment reduces HIV spread
August 10, 2015 | Vaccine News Daily
A recent study conducted by the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS shows that there has been improved access to methadone treatments from primary care, which has caused a decline in the spread of HIV. “Those individuals in the study who were not prescribed methadone were almost...
What you need to know about fentanyl
August 07, 2015 | Global News
There’s been a recent spike in fatal overdoses involving Fentanyl. UBC’s M-J Milloy explains what people should know about the potent painkiller. Your browser does not support frames. Click here to view the frameless video.....
‘Wake up the doctors’ and teach them addictions
July 29, 2015 | Canadian Healthcare Network
“Wake up the doctors and educate the people,” Dr. Ernest Bishop, a clinical professor of medicine at New York Polyclinic Medical School, wrote in the American Journal of Public Health. “Medical, legislative and popular ideas are all in error.” The article was titled “Na...
From BC cabinet to sleeping under a bridge, Vancouver man shares his story of recovery
June 29, 2015 | The National Post
Relaxed on a comfortable couch in the newly built high-end condo tower he now calls home, Marshall Smith doesn’t need to look far to see where he spent some of the lowest times in his life. It’s only a stone’s throw – but a world away – from his 21st-storey condo to the...
Prisoners forced off methadone less likely to return to treatment
June 04, 2015 | Reuters
(Reuters Health) – When people on methadone maintenance therapy are incarcerated, many are forced to stop taking it, and are less likely to restart methadone treatment on their release, according to a new study. A once-daily dose of methadone relieves withdrawal symptoms from heroin and other ...
