The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Study to evaluate effect of welfare cheque distribution on drug use
September 23, 2014 | The Vancouver Sun
“Welfare Wednesday” phenomenon puts heavy load on police and emergency services A new study will examine whether changing the release date of welfare cheques could reduce the increase in drug use and overdoses seen on the last Wednesday of the month. “There is a cyclical peak every...
Life lessons: Evan Wood
August 19, 2014 | Business in Vancouver
Evan Wood, an addictions and HIV-AIDS expert, is a professor of medicine at theUniversity of British Columbiaand co-director of the Urban Health Research Initiative at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Wood has spent his career in two intense areas: the highly competitive world of scientific...
BC funds new addictions research and treatment
August 06, 2014 | The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia government is boosting funding for addictions research and treatment in the province, with money directed at testing of a drug that can block the effects of heroin and alcohol. Health Minister Terry Lake made the announcement in Vancouver’s St. Paul’...
BC addictions research, treatment funding gets $3 million boost
August 06, 2014 | The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia government is boosting funding for addictions research and treatment in the province, with money directed at testing of a drug that can block the effects of heroin and alcohol. Health Minister Terry Lake made the announcement in Vancouver’s St. Paul’...
$3 million to help health professionals treat addiction
August 06, 2014 | Newsroom
VANCOUVER – For those British Columbians and their families who are struggling with addiction, more help is on the way with a $3-million investment to expand and support a provincial addiction medicine education and research training program for clinicians, making it the largest in North Ameri...
