Substance Use

UBCO Reduction and Recovery

UBCO Reduction and Recovery

  Ask yourself: how many people in your life are negatively affected by substance use?  It can be assumed that nearly everyone knows someone struggling with substance use—whether it involves drugs, alcohol, or food; it is likely each of us has at least one person we wish we could help. For some, that person is […]

UBCO Harm Reduction Team at Big White

UBCO Harm Reduction Team at Big White

A first for the UBCO Harm Reduction Team (HaRT)

Tackling Toxic Drugs

Tackling Toxic Drugs

UBCO’s collaboration with the community is breaking down barriers when it comes to accessing harm reduction services

Drug checking on UBCO campus

Drug checking on UBCO campus

Free and confidential testing

Campus Health supports International Overdose Awareness Day

Campus Health supports International Overdose Awareness Day

UBCO’s Campus Health Harm Reduction Team says they’re seeing a staggering amount of Fentanyl and Benzodiazepines in the drug supply

UBCO and the Overdose Crisis

UBCO and the Overdose Crisis

5 years since BC declared the overdose crisis a public health emergency

New enhanced service available in several Okanagan communities

New enhanced service available in several Okanagan communities

UBC Okanagan’s Harm Reduction Team, in partnership with Interior Health, is taking its confidential drug-checking service to communities across the region in an effort to save lives

Campus Health leading Harm Reduction Initiative

Campus Health leading Harm Reduction Initiative

Access Campus Health’s Harm Reduction Team (HaRT) in the Okanagan Valley

Smoke-free campus plan for UBCO

Smoke-free campus plan for UBCO

Proposal for a Smoke-free Campus