Every month, year after year, the British Columbia Coroners Service releases the numbers of illicit drug-related deaths in the province and every month they are grim. The month of November, like the month before it and the month before that, is another month of witnessing the horrific impacts of a

Drug advisories that lack nuance and context, like the ones put out by Public Health, only serve to remind us of all the things governments could be doing but aren’t.

We’ve been receiving a lot of questions lately about the use of benzodiazepine test strips at our service ... and no wonder, our January Report [https://substance.uvic.ca/blog/january-2021-monthly-report/] shows that benzodiazepines and related drugs were detected in 50% of opioid down samples last month. Here we will

Ever wonder how drug checking fits into the overall scope of the overdose crisis? Curious what people think about drug checking? Check out this journal article written by our project leads and community partners to explore drug checking considerations from the perspective of potential service users. This study interviewed 27

For our first blog post, we would like to share project member Ashley Larnder's first-hand perspective of being a technician as she stepped into a previously unknown world of harm reduction and drug checking. Our blog aims to offer knowledge straight from the source of our project while