RedZone Podcast
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -An unprecedented look into the opioid crisis in Canada.
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PART 2: From Safe Supply to Suboxone: Tools for Dealing with a Crisis with Dr.Paxton Bach
December 14, 2021 14:00 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBWelcome to a special two part special two part episode of the RedZone podcast. We sit down with Dr.Paxton Bach, an addictions medicine specialist from the BCCSU, and leading expert to explore what tools we have in the toolkit to address the opioid crisis. Is the traditional medical model for delivering addictions medicine care, really not a structured model at all? In Part 2, Dr.Bach weighs in on how fragmented episodic addictions care is failing all stakeholders and what needs to be d...
PART 1: From Safe Supply to Suboxone: Tools for Dealing with a Crisis with Dr.Paxton Bach
December 07, 2021 14:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBWelcome to a special two part special two part episode of the RedZone podcast. We sit down with Dr.Paxton Bach, an addictions medicine specialist from the BCCSU, and leading expert to explore what tools we have in the toolkit to address the opioid crisis. From safe supply a new lo acting injectable formulation of suboxone, we look at recent developments within the Canadian context and the BC landscape, as well as some of the real world considerations when deploying these tools on the fro...
Medical Cannabis and the Opioid Crisis: A Relook with Dr.Ziva Cooper
November 08, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBDr.Ziva Cooper, PhD Director, Research Director UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative Associate Professor Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior Dept of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Dr. Ziva Cooper is the Director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Department of Anesthesiology at the Dav...
The Anatomy of a Crisis with Former BC Health Minister Terry Lake
October 18, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBAbout Terry Lake Terry trained and practiced as a veterinarian and taught animal health technology before entering public life as an elected representative. He served as councillor and then Mayor of the City of Kamloops and then was elected Member of the Legislature for the riding of Kamloops North Thompson in 2009. He served as BC Minister of the Environment from 2011-2013 and Minister of Health from 2013-2017. He was awarded the Canadian Public Health Association Public Health Hero Awa...
A Challenging Problem, A Delicate Balance: BC's Opioid Epidemic with Minister Sheila Malcolmson
October 11, 2021 13:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBAbout Hon. Sheila Malcolmson-BC Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson was elected as MLA for Nanaimo in a by-election in 2019, and re-elected in 2020. She is the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions as well as the Vice-Chair of the Cabinet Working Group on Mental Health, Addictions and Homelessness and a member of the Cabinet Committee on Social Initiatives. Sheila previously served as the Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment. Prior to her election as an ...
Breaking the Post-Surgical Pain Cycle with Dr.Hance Clarke
October 04, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBDr.Hance Clarke MD, FRCPC, PhD Associate Professor, Anesthesia, University of Toronto Dr. Clarke is an anesthesiologist and the director of Pain Services and the medical director of the Pain Research Unit at the University Health Network's Toronto General Hospital. He is appointed to the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Royal College Clinician Scientist Program. His research interests include identifying novel acute pain treatments followi...
Vancouver's Decriminalization Plan with Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart
September 20, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBAbout Mayor Kennedy Stewart: Kennedy Stewart was elected the 40th Mayor of Vancouver on October 20, 2018, and is the City's first independent Mayor in three decades. Elected as a Member of Parliament in 2011, he served in Ottawa for seven years working to fight climate change and increase federal investment in affordable housing. Stewart served at SFU's School of Public Policy where, as a tenured professor, he wrote, taught, and provided advice to governments and the United Nations about ci...