Category - News Releases and Coverage

A man prepares heroin he bought on the street to be injected at the Insite safe injection clinic in Vancouver on May 11, 2011. (Photo Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

News Releases and Coverage

Medical-grade heroin should be given to severely addicted patients: research group (Crosstown Clinic, BCCSU)

September 24, 2019

Vancouver fire and park board officials take away mattresses while checking on vacant tents at Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver, British Columbia on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. (Photo Credit: Ben Nelms/CBC)

News Releases and Coverage

VPD renews safety concerns in Oppenheimer Park and DTES with officer assaults up 68% (BCCSU)

September 23, 2019

Among the drugs increasingly unavailable or on back-order are those for diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and heart failure, writes Dr. Charles Shaver. (Photo Credit: Jacques Boissinot , The Canadian Press)

Diabetes • Heart • Heart Failure • Kidney & Renal • News Releases and Coverage

Drug shortage is worsening, governments silent (SPH)

September 23, 2019

The province says the primary care centre will be open seven days a week and will feature around 22 employees. (Photo Credit: Global News)

Ear Health • News Releases and Coverage

Province announces urgent primary care centre will open in Kelowna this winter (Urgent Primary Care Centre)

September 23, 2019

Police speak to a man and woman on East Hastings in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Thursday, Feb 7, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)

News Releases and Coverage

VPD says it won’t change strategies in Downtown Eastside despite critical report (BCCSU)

September 23, 2019

Vancouver Coastal Health chief medical health officer Dr. Patricia Daly outlined the parameters of the Regional Addictions Program in a recent interview with the Courier. (Photograph By DAN TOULGOET)

News Releases and Coverage • Substance Use

New Vancouver Coastal Health program aims for consistency in addictions treatment (PHC)

September 23, 2019

Staff members from the popup safe injection tent prepare the insect a man with Naloxone as he overdoses in a Downtown Eastside alley in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 18, 2016. (Photo Credit: Rafal Gerszak)

News Releases and Coverage

Policing Downtown Eastside is increasing the overdose risks: study (BCCSU)

September 23, 2019

Dr. Nadia Fairbairn, an addiction specialist at St. Paul’s Hospital (Photo Credit: BCCSU.ca)

News Releases and Coverage

Give severely addicted drug users injectable medical-grade heroin: guideline (Dr. Nadia Fairbairn, St. Paul’s Hospital)

September 23, 2019

News Releases and Coverage

Raising awareness of the world’s #1 killer (Scott Harrison, Dr. Keith Walley, SPH)

September 20, 2019

Cochlear Implant • Ear Health • News Releases and Coverage • Tinnitus

The Torment of Tinnitus (Lisa Bell, SPH)

September 20, 2019