PART 1: From Safe Supply to Suboxone: Tools for Dealing with a Crisis with Dr.Paxton Bach

Welcome 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 frontlines.

ABOUT Dr.Paxton Bach MD, MSc, ABIM, FRCPC

Paxton Bach MD, MSc, ABIM, FRCPC is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a general internist and addiction medicine physician at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, BC. He additionally serves as the Co-Medical Director for the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, and is the Director of the BCCSU Clinical Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program.

Dr. Bach is certified as a specialist in General Internal Medicine through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and an Addiction Medicine specialist through the International Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Board of Preventative Medicine.