The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
With mental health calls on the rise, officials question whether Riverview Hospital should reopen
August 10, 2022 | Global News
With a rise in seemingly unprovoked assaults and attacks in Metro Vancouver where mental health is a contributing factor, some officials are now questioning if a shuttered facility should be reopened. In May, Sgt. Steve Addison with the Vancouver Police Department said violent crime in the city incr...
People’s “Purposeful, Rational” Reasons for Mixing Meth and Opioids
July 25, 2022 | Filter
People mixing stimulants and opioids is not a new phenomenon. Mixing heroin and cocaine, a “speedball,” was fairly common practice in the 1990s, for instance. More recently, mixing fentanyl and methamphetamine, in what’s known as a “goofball,” is a growing trend. But according to a new pa...
Teaching the science and humanity of addiction
July 20, 2022 | The Daily Scan
To graduate from medical school, you are required to have instruction across a wide range of care areas, but incredibly, you can graduate without any formal training to recognize and treat addiction. And yet, most physicians, regardless of their specialty, are likely to encounter patients dealing wi...
Amid grim opioid death projections, Ottawa faces calls to move faster on safe supply
June 30, 2022 | Global News
Petra Schulz’ son Danny was a chef working in one of the best restaurants in Edmonton and was on the road to recovery from an addiction to heroine when one day of relapse became his last. “He went to work on the day he died. He died after work. He had relapsed, took one more pill, and at the t...
‘Rigged political circus’: NDP, experts pan Alberta report on ‘safe supply’ of drugs
June 30, 2022 | CTV News Edmonton
Alberta will not offer a public “safe supply” of illicit drugs to people addicted to opioids; instead the government will focus on other harm reduction and treatment methods. That direction became more clear this week after the release of a long-awaited and highly-criticized report from...
