As the toxic drug crisis continues, Interior Health (IH) in collaboration with local prescribers has implemented a new model to help connect people in the…
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EDs connecting more people to opioid use treatment
Interior Health is making the opioid use disorder medication Suboxone widely available in its hospital emergency departments. Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a treatable medical…
IH nurse prescriber program continues to expand
One year ago today, Crystal Head of Vernon was the first registered nurse in B.C. to write an opioid agonist treatment (OAT) prescription for opioid…
What is Harm Reduction?
By Dean Nicholson With all the talk about the Fentanyl crisis, the term ‘Harm Reduction’ is often raised as an approach to deal with the…
Addictions treatment – understanding the pieces
By Dean Nicholson As a new story seems to come out daily about the fentanyl problem and what’s being done to address it, it would…