The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
4/20: Cannabis could be safe alternative to toxic drug supply, so why is access being cut off?
April 20, 2022 | Georgia Straight
As British Columbia struggles to implement and scale-up safer supply programs to blunt the unprecedented overdose crisis, why is provincial law enforcement shutting down community-level groups providing a safer supply of cannabis to people at greatest risk of overdose? At the beginning of March,...
On Wednesday, many students wore pink. But advocates say LGBTQ youth need support all year
April 17, 2022 | CBC News
The mood inside Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School was electric this week, as a sea of rose- and fuchsia-clad students, teachers, parents and administrators marked this year’s International Day of Pink with the school’s first in-person assembly since COVID-19 hit. Many hours we...
Vancouver Safe Supply Program Begins Prescribing Take-Home Fentanyl
April 13, 2022 | Filter
Despite efforts to make medical safe supply programs in Canada as low-barrier as possible, they still require most participants to make daily trips into the clinic or a pharmacy to pick up their prescriptions, and consume them under supervision. Now, Vancouver’s PHS Community Services Society has ...
Should youth addicted to drugs be forced into care? Family, advocates divided
April 10, 2022 | Vancouver Sun
Families and advocates of youth addicted to illicit drugs are divided over whether minors should be forced into so-called secure care to stabilize them before longer-term voluntary treatment could be provided. Laws vary across Canada for what amounts to involuntary detox for minors who are sometimes...
Opinion: Two-tiered health system is here – and it’s making the overdose crisis worse
April 08, 2022 | Vancouver Is Awesome
Canadians like to believe that our health care system is the envy of the world: high quality, equitable, and – best of all – free to access. If you look just a little closer, though, the cracks and gaps in our system show, especially when it comes to substance use and addiction. Those gaps revea...
