Category - Substance Use

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

St. Paul’s Hospital Rapid Access Addiction Clinic celebrates two years of helping people with substance use problems

September 26, 2018