MD, PhD, FRCPC | improving medical care for people who use drugs/alcohol, and improving substance use care for people with medical illnesses
Drug prohibition’s “iron law” (aka “paradox” aka “squeezing the balloon”) strikes again www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/w...
Estonia Won the War on Fentanyl. What Came Next Was Even Worse. (Gift Article)By 2018, fentanyl overdoses in Estonia had plummeted. But powerful new drugs are appearing fast, with the authorities racing to respond.www.nytimes.comWe have a new paper in @sajamersa.bsky.social evaluating the “scattered-site” managed alcohol program (MAP) in Halifax, Nova Scotia It was first launched during COVID- combining a central supported building + outreach to individual apartments- and sustained 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.journals.sagepub.comWe have a new paper in @cjphrcsp.bsky.social describing our efforts to improve substance use care in hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 2018-2024, from the clinical frontlines and community without institutional policy support: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/
Improving hospital substance use care from the ground up and from the outside in - Canadian Journal of Public HealthSetting The Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is an academic, tertiary care hospital that lacked policies related to unregulated substance use, harm reduction, ...link.springer.com