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Vancouver program trains doctors in addictions treatment
August 17, 2015 | 24 Hours (Vancouver)
A Vancouver program at St. Paul’s aims to train doctors who may not be familiar with drug addiction to recognize the signs and target harm reduction strategies like service providers in the Downtown Eastside already do. Dr. Annabel Mead is the director of the Goldcorp Addiction Medicine Progra...
Study links increased access to methadone and decrease in spread of HIV
August 10, 2015 | News 1130
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – There is a link between increased access to methadone for injection drug users and a decrease in the spread of HIV, according to a new study. Dr. Keith Ahamad with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says researchers looked at a group of users on Vancouver’s ...
Methadone therapy cuts HIV-infection rates: Study
August 10, 2015 | Global News
VANCOUVER – Increasing access to methadone treatment through primary-care doctors and pharmacies significantly cuts the spread of HIV, according to research involving Vancouver residents addicted to opioids. Injection drug users who were not prescribed methadone were almost four times more lik...
Methadone for IV drug addiction reduces HIV infections
August 10, 2015 | Medical Research Interviews and News
Dr. Keith Ahamad, a clinician scientist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and a Family Doctor trained and certified in Addiction Medicine. He is Division Lead for Addiction Medicine in the department of Family and Community Medicine at Providence Health Care, and is also an addiction physi...
Increasing methadone accessibility cuts HIV transmission: Study
August 10, 2015 | CTV News
VANCOUVER – A new study in Vancouver has found that increasing access to methadone for treatment of opioid addiction through primary-care doctors and pharmacies significantly decreases the spread of HIV. The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet HIV, found injection drug users who...
