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Category - News Releases and Coverage

Heart • News Releases and Coverage • Valve Disorders

Valve-in-valve TAVR proves successful in the long-term (Dr. John Webb, SPH)

June 10, 2019
Twice a day Kieran Collins, 39, injects prescription-grade heroin at the Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver. (Nick Purdon/CBC)
News Releases and Coverage

Free heroin? Unusual clinic offers ‘chance at being human again’ (Crosstown)

June 9, 2019
The rapidly increased distribution of take-home naloxone kits — the drug that reverses the effects of opioids like heroin and fentanyl — is one initiative researchers are crediting with the prevention of thousands of overdose deaths in B.C. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)
News Releases and Coverage

Overdose crisis death toll would be more than double without harm reduction (OPS)

June 8, 2019
L - R: Dr. Helen Burt, UBC Vice-President Research & Innovation; Dr. Jeannie Shoveller, CGSHE Associate Director & Director of Research, Chair of CIHR Governing Council; Hon. Ginette Pettipas Taylor, federal Minister of Health; Dr. Kate Shannon, CGSHE Executive Director
News Releases and Coverage

Dr. Jeannie Shoveller becomes first woman chairperson in the history of the CIHR (BCCSU)

June 8, 2019
Graffiti on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside urges intravenous drug users to use the Insite supervised injection facility and to carry Narcan to reverse overdoses.
News Releases and Coverage

Investigation: Deadly fentanyl now B.C. addicts’ drug of choice (BCCSU)

June 8, 2019
Cannabis • News Releases and Coverage • Substance Use

Hope for Health launches as the first CRA registered cannabis charity (Dr. Jenna Valleriani, BCCSU)

June 8, 2019
Melanie Pratt began injecting heroin at age 38 in an effort to deal with the trauma of losing both her parents. (Photos courtesy of Darryl Dyck / The Globe and Mail)
Cannabis • News Releases and Coverage • Opioids • Substance Use

Vancouver councillor wants project to provide cheap marijuana as an opioid substitute (Dr. MJ Milloy, BCCSU)

June 8, 2019
Dr. Lindsey Richardson, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at UBC.
News Releases and Coverage

Changes to income assistance schedules could impact drug use (Dr. Lindsey Richardson, BCCSU)

June 8, 2019
Life expectancy rates in Canada have stopped increasing for the first time in four decades. (Photo courtesy of CTV News)
News Releases and Coverage

Make StatsCan data on lower life expectancy due to ODs an election issue (Dr. Keith Ahamad, BCCSU)

June 8, 2019
News Releases and Coverage

Order of B.C. celebrates 30 years: B.C.’s highest honour recognizes 15 (Dr. Bruce McManus, PHC)

May 31, 2019

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