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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