The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Some Pa. cannabis companies use misleading, inaccurate or dangerous statements to promote marijuana for addiction treatment
February 21, 2022 | Centre Daily Times
HARRISBURG — Some Pennsylvania cannabis companies are using incomplete or misleading claims to promote marijuana as a treatment for opioid addiction, potentially putting patients’ lives at greater risk, a Spotlight PA investigation has found. In a first-of-its-kind review, Spotlight PA examined ...
Scale up B.C. drug-checking programs to save lives: centre on substance use
February 19, 2022 | Winnipeg Free Press
VANCOUVER – Checking illicit drugs for deadly toxins is the best option to prevent fatal overdoses without a safer supply, but that service should be expanded to rural and remote communities in British Columbia, says the manager of a drug-checking program being evaluated by the BC Centre for S...
Spike of unregulated drugs mixed with benzodiazepines creating targeted violence: experts
February 12, 2022 | CityNews
Vulnerable people who use unregulated drugs in B.C. are not only at risk of dying from the illicit toxic supply, but are facing risks to their safety like gender-based violence, according to advocates and health care professionals. Along with the alarming provincial reports that 2,224 people died of...
What is safe supply? A look at what B.C. drug users, advocates are demanding
February 11, 2022 | Vancouver Sun
B.C.’s chief coroner renewed a call for access to safe, regulated pharmaceutical alternatives this week as she reported a record number of overdose deaths from toxic, illicit drugs. “In order to save lives in this public-health emergency, we need to provide people with access to the substances t...
These 5 myths about B.C.’s toxic drug crisis are hurting efforts to stop the deaths, say experts
February 11, 2022 | CBC News
In the five years and 10 months since B.C. declared a public health emergency because of drug-related deaths, the problem has only gotten worse. Statistics released by the B.C. Coroners Service this week confirmed that 2,224 lives were lost in 2021, making it the deadliest year on record. Advocate...
