Category - Substance Use

The new St. Paul’s Hospital.

Eating Disorders • Mental Health • New St. Paul's • News You Can Use • Substance Use

New St. Paul’s Hospital Officially Moving Forward

February 15, 2019

First in Canada pilot project at St. Paul’s Hospital ED to provide take-away treatment to opioid overdose patients

February 6, 2019

Opioids • Substance Use

Crosstown Clinic nurses win client-nominated award

January 7, 2019

Cannabis • COPD • Heart • Heart Failure • Lung • News You Can Use • Substance Use

Year in review: the biggest PHC stories of 2018

January 3, 2019

Mobile Medical Unit on the DTES at night. Patient being escorted in.

Opioids • Our People • Research • Substance Use

Study: mobile trailer a success in caring for opioid overdose patients

November 26, 2018

Cannabis • Research • Substance Use

Dr. M-J Milloy becomes UBC’s first cannabis science professor

November 23, 2018

COPD • Coronary Artery Disease • Heart • Heart Failure • Lung • News You Can Use • Opioids • Substance Use

4 ways technology is transforming care at Providence

November 16, 2018

News You Can Use • Substance Use

A paramedic’s response to the overdose crisis

October 24, 2018

Drs. Don Sin and Wan Tan are calling for more research on the long-term health effects of marijuana.

Cannabis • COPD • Lung • Lung Cancer • Research • Substance Use

We still don’t know how long-term marijuana use affects our lungs

October 22, 2018

This file photo taken on April 20, 2016 shows a woman waving a flag with a marijuana leaf on it next to a group gathered to celebrate National Marijuana Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (CHRIS ROUSSAKIS / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Cannabis • News You Can Use • Substance Use

What you need to know before cannabis is legalized

October 4, 2018