What is safe supply? A look at what B.C. drug users, advocates are demanding
Credit to Author: Sarah Grochowski| Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 01:18:05 +0000
Postmedia spoke with experts to talk about safe supply and what could be on the horizon.
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Ian Mulgrew: B.C.'s shocking rise in opioid deaths 'is not street use,' say experts
Credit to Author: Ian Mulgrew| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:46:56 +0000
“We’ve treated it as a law enforcement problem for so long. It’s hard to see what the alternative would look like,” says B.C.’s chief coroner
Read moreDoctors Are Prescribing Fentanyl to Help People Addicted to Opioids
Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:12:26 GMT
To stop overdoses, the British Columbia government is providing fentanyl patches and pills to people using street drugs.
Read moreA Vending Machine in Canada Is Dispensing a Drug Twice as Strong as Heroin
Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:07:18 +0000
Hydromorphone, aka “Dilly,” is now available to people who aren’t ready or able to quit opioids.
Read more5 Years After a Devastating HIV Outbreak, Indiana Is Still Lacking in Needle Exchanges
Credit to Author: Giles Bruce, Kaiser Health News| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:00:34 +0000
Public health experts say this reflects a continuing reluctance to treat addiction as a health issue.
Read moreParticipants needed for UBC study into opioid treatment to help painful spinal cord injuries
Credit to Author: Denise Ryan| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:04:33 +0000
Participants are needed for a study on a drug that combines oxycodone and naloxone in an attempt to curb the constipation caused by opioids.
Read moreVancouver Coastal Health will soon hand out drug testing strips
Credit to Author: Scott Brown| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:12:02 +0000
Strips are just as accurate as drug checking at a health care facility in identifying opioids contaminated by fentanyl
Read moreOpioids Are Killing More Than Twice as Many People as We Thought
Credit to Author: Katie Way| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:41:53 +0000
Imprecise medical classifications have concealed that the opioid epidemic is somehow even worse than we thought.
Read moreWhat We Can Learn From a Tiny Baltic Country’s Two-Decade Fentanyl Crisis
Credit to Author: Aliide Naylor| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:44:06 +0000
A look at the opioid problem in Estonia suggests that in some parts of the U.S. and Canada, fentanyl is likely to replace heroin for good. The country’s experience also offers a few workable solutions.
Read more'The stigma is pretty intense': Ex-Vancouver councillor speaks out on hepatitis C treatment
Credit to Author: Dan Fumano| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 02:12:05 +0000
“Without people stepping up and saying: ‘I have this,’ or ‘Someone I know and love has this and this needs to be more of a priority,’ things don’t change.”
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