The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
First Nations figure prominently in drug fatalities
January 20, 2011 | Westender
First Nations people – particularly women – are more likely to die from a drug overdose in British Columbia than non-aboriginal people, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by the Urban Health Research Initiative, a program operating out of the BC Centre for Excellence in HI...
Fatal drug overdoses falling across BC, but still high among First Nations
January 06, 2011 | The Vancouver Sun
More than 900 BC residents died from accidental drug overdoses between 2001 and 2005, but the first Canadian study to examine such deaths showed that they fell by almost half in 2005. The study, by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, also found that people from first nations accounted for a di...
Injecting truth: RCMP and the truth about safe injection sites
August 20, 2010 | Maclean's
It would have been quite a news conference, and it very nearly happened. Last fall, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, after months of intense, private talks, agreed to face the media together to declare their agreement that research shows t...
HIV meds don’t up IV drug abusers’ risk-taking
August 12, 2010 | Reuters
(Reuters Health) – Despite some concerns to the contrary, IV drug abusers who get drug treatment for HIV do not seem to increase their risky behavior, a new study suggests. In the U.S., injection drug use has directly or indirectly accounted for more than one-third of AIDS cases since the epid...
Scientists speaking up: BC AIDS expert
July 22, 2010 | The Province
Scientists under attack for denouncing the global war on drugs are fighting back, says a University of BC associate professor on the front lines of the battle. Despite mountains of scientific evidence proving the prohibition on drugs such as heroin is a failure, governments in Canada, the U.S. and a...
