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Patient-centered care can enhance engagement for people with substance use disorder. Four core principles: a holistic and individualized focus to care, shared decision-making and enhanced therapeutic alliance. rdcu.be/bQUQC @kirstenmb604 @ScottBeaumont95

A new publication from CHÉOS trainee @kirstenmb604 explores how patient-centred care has been defined and measured for people accessing treatments for substance use disorder. In @BioMedCentral. substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Overdose reversal saves lives but does nothing to change lives. Instead of treating the poison from toxic street drugs, we need to eliminate it with a safe, accessible, clean supply. It’s #IOAD2019 & Vancouver’s Safe Supply Statement is plain & simple: youtu.be/l7re0RCQ1oQ

The 30th ed. of #EvidenceSpeaks summarizes some of the latest research at CHÉOS: — pediatric ED overcrowding; @BCCHresearch's Dr. Quynh Doan — congenital anomalies & dolutegravir; @CPARG_PED — @Salome_Study treatment retention; @ejoekes1 et al. cheos.ubc.ca/news/2019/06/t…

👇🏽 Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith to introduce private member's bill re: drug decriminalization "at first opportunity." Party has swiftly dismissed calls for decriminalization despite calls from top health and drug policy officials across Canada.

#ICOO2019 Presenting a poster on safety of induction with hydromorphone & diacetylmorphone for treatment of opioid use disorder. Happy to be on the campus of Harvard Medical School at International Conference on Opioids

“This announcement from @GovCanHealth is an encouraging ex. of research evidence informing policy decisions that will have tangible impacts across Canada" —@ejoekes1 Read about @GinettePT's anouncment & the CHÉOS/@Providence_Hlth research that led to it cheos.ubc.ca/news/2019/05/i…

Hydromorphone has been given an indication for treatment of severe opioid use disorder. As of May 1, 2019, supervised injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) is sanctioned as part of the continuum of care across this great country. newswire.ca/news-releases/…

The @Providence_Hlth Crosstown Clinic is the site of several groundbreaking studies co-led by CHÉOS Scientists and staff. A new documentary film about the Clinic by Colin Askey premieres tonight at the @DOXAFestival at the Cinemateque on Howe. doxafestival.ca/film/front-lin…

I went to prison for my friend's overdose death. Laws that treat overdoses as homicides are proliferating across the country. In this op-ed I wrote for the @Oregonian, I explain why blame makes for bad policy. s.oregonlive.com/cslxleM

Today is the National Day of Action on the Overdose Crisis and mobilization is happening across Canada. Here are events in your cities! BC Powell: buff.ly/2IwXXBq Prince George: buff.ly/2GoQq6a Duncan: buff.ly/2ICWDgn Vancouver: buff.ly/2IANjtC

A parliamentary committee's trip across Canada to study meth use concludes in Vancouver, where experts urge it not to focus on just one substance, and call for drug decriminalization and regulation theglobeandmail.com/canada/british…

Really proud of the hard work my @DrugPolicyOrg colleagues put into this new project - "Rethinking the 'drug dealer.'" It humanizes people who have been convicted of selling drugs while dispelling common myths/stereotypes. drugpolicy.org/drugsellers #NoMoreDrugWar

We are super proud of this report! #SafeSupply capud.ca/concept

With all this talk today about saving people from fentanyl death with a safer supply, this thing I filed a few years ago seems relevant: theprovince.com/health/radical…

In a recent article appearing in @TheAtlantic, CHÉOS' Dr. @ejoekes1 discusses the SALOME and NAOMI trials in relation to a recent @RANDCorporation report about heroin-assisted treatment, by @ZachWritesStuff. CC: @ubcspph @Providence_Hlth @Salome_Study theatlantic.com/health/archive…

"The majority of people aren't dying from a safe secure pharmaceutical source of their substance of choice. They are dying from the alternative which is accessing from a tainted illicit black Market." capud.ca/safesupply

About a year ago, I started a project with 8 colleagues to assess the evidence on HAT/SCS & examine some of the issues associated with implementing them in the US. If you don't have time to read ~400p covering 5 reports, here are the highlights rand.org/pubs/research_… #fentanyl

A short video from @novapbs showing some of the ways Vancouver, British Columbia rises to the challenge of illicit drug overdose deaths, including supervised injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) facebook.com/NOVApbs/videos…