Newsletters

May 2022

Highlights from this issue include:

• BC ECHO on Substance Use
  programming
• BC Substance Use Conference
• CSAM-SMCA 2022 Scientific Conference:
  Call for Abstracts
• Additional resources for substance use care
• News from BC
• News from across Canada

April 2022

Highlights from this issue include:

• Update:
  BC ECHO on Substance Use
  programming
• BC Substance Use Conference
• Expanding iOAT for those who need it
• Additional resources for substance use care
• News from BC
• News from across Canada

February 2022

Highlights from this issue include:

• BC Coroners Service:
  The toxic illicit drug supply claimed at least 2,224 lives in 2021
• LOUD in the ED:
  Stopping the revolving door
• Additional resources for substance use care
• News from BC and Yukon
• News from across Canada

Special Update

Highlights from this issue include:

• New Guidance: Risk Mitigation Guidance Update & Opioid Use Disorder Practice Update

January 2022

Highlights from this issue include:

• Save the date: BC Substance Use Conference
• Substance use nursing in rural contexts
• Addiction Pharmacy Fellowship
• News from BC and Yukon
• News from across Canada

December 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Peer advocacy navigators
• New training: Nurse prescribing of opioid agonist treatment
• Additional resources for substance use care
• News from BC and Yukon
• News from across Canada

November 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Benzodiazepines increasingly present in unregulated opioids
• Webinar series: Opioid use disorder care in ED settings
• Additional resources for substance use care
• News from BC and Yukon
• News from across Canada

October 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Support line for clinicians can save lives
• New dashboard for drug checking results in BC
• Addiction Practice Pod – new season coming
• BC ECHO on Substance Use
  programming update
• Additional resources for substance use care
• News from BC and Yukon
• News from across Canada

September 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Applications open: clinical and research fellowships
• Sublocade clinical bulletin
• Additional resources for substance use care
• News from BC and Yukon
• News from across Canada

August 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Urine Drug Testing Breakout Resource
• Understanding the experiences of illicit drinkers: An interview with Brittany Graham
• Additional resources for substance use care
• News from BC and Yukon
• News from across Canada

July 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Mentorship in Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Leslie Lappalainen
• New Resources for Substance Use Care
• News from Around BC
• News from Across Canada

June 2021

• Highlights from this issue include:
• Seeing Beyond the Behaviour: An Interview with Meaghan Thumath
• Annual BCCSU Awards Recipients Announced
• New Resources for Substance Use Care
• News from Around BC
• News from Across Canada

May 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Managing Co-occurring Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders
• Call for Nominations: Annual BCCSU Awards
• New Resources for Substance Use Care
• News from Around BC
• News from Across Canada

April 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Pharmacists at the Forefront: An Interview with Dr. Mona Kwong
• 2021 BC Substance Use Conference
• Five Years of the Public Health Emergency
• New Resources for Substance Use Care
• News from Around BC
• News from Across Canada

March 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Dr. Jeff Harries: Profile of a Trailblazer
• New Clinical Resource: Alcohol Use Disorder Pregnancy Supplement
• 24/7 Helpline Expands to Support Midwives
• Save the Date: 2021 BC Substance Use Conference
• News and features from the BC ECHO on Substance Use and partners
• Special update from the BC ECHO on Substance Use team

February 2021

Highlights from this issue include:

• Nurses in BC now able to prescribe treatments for opioid use disorder
• Changing the Story on Addiction Care
• New resources for substance use care
• 24/7 Helpline Expands to Support Frontline Health Workers in Indigenous Communities
• News and features from the BC ECHO on Substance Use and partners
• Remembering Ron Kuhlke

November 2020

Highlights from this issue include:

• The harms of criminalizing substance use: An interview with Dr. Bonnie Henry
• Listen up: New episodes of the Addiction Practice Pod
• The lines are open: 24/7 addiction clinician support
• News and features from the BC ECHO on Substance Use and partners
• New resources for substance use care