Latest Ioat Podcast Episodes

PART 2: From Safe Supply to Suboxone: Tools for Dealing with a Crisis with Dr.Paxton Bach

RedZone Podcast - December 14, 2021 14:00 - 14 minutes
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.   Is the traditional medical model for...

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

RedZone Podcast - December 07, 2021 14:00 - 27 minutes
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 inje...

Medical Cannabis and the Opioid Crisis: A Relook with Dr.Ziva Cooper

RedZone Podcast - November 08, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes
  Dr.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 ...

The Anatomy of a Crisis with Former BC Health Minister Terry Lake

RedZone Podcast - October 18, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes
About 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 ...

A Challenging Problem, A Delicate Balance: BC's Opioid Epidemic with Minister Sheila Malcolmson

RedZone Podcast - October 11, 2021 13:00 - 18 minutes
About 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 Hea...

Breaking the Post-Surgical Pain Cycle with Dr.Hance Clarke

RedZone Podcast - October 04, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes
Dr.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 Insti...

Vancouver's Decriminalization Plan with Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart

RedZone Podcast - September 20, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes
About 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 feder...