Urban Health Research Initiative

Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting
January 21, 2013 | HCLU
Insite is very different from the dark picture the Canadian government tries to paint of it – and so much more than just an injecting site. It connects people to other services, such as shelter, food, detoxification, rehabilitation, financial literacy and sports facilities.
Business in Vancouver announces fresh crop of Forty Under 40 winners
December 11, 2012 | Business in Vancouver
BC-CfE researcher Dr. Evan Wood has been named as one of Business in Vancouver's Forty Under 40 winners for 2012/13.
Dr. Scott Hadland: War on drugs worsens our health and safety
August 21, 2012 | The Province
More than 40 years after U.S. president Richard Nixon launched the global “war on drugs”, illegal drugs remain freely available worldwide to those who seek them. Here in Canada, matters are no better.
Canada should train doctors to specialize in addiction
August 20, 2012 | The Globe and Mail
A fundamental issue with Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is the high rate of untreated drug and alcohol addiction. While complaints about underfunding of the addiction-treatment system have been regularly voiced, one of the basic reasons for the problem will come as a shock to many.
Doctors, scientists want proposed federal drug law scrapped
February 9, 2011 | Vancouver Sun
More than 500 doctors, scientists and academics, including BC-CfE researchers, are calling on the federal government to abandon a new bill that would impose mandatory minimum prison sentences on people convicted of drug offences.
Crime bill panned by scientists, doctors
February 9, 2011 | Kamloops Daily News
An open letter, led by the BC-CfE's Addiction and Urban Health Research Initiative, opposes mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences.
Overdose deaths declined since 1990s
January 28, 2011 | Vancouver Courier
Overdose deaths in Vancouver have declined significantly since the 1990s, according to the BC-CfE's Dr. Thomas Kerr.
First Nations figure prominently in drug fatalities
January 20, 2011 | Westender
First Nations people — particularly women — are more likely to die from a drug overdose in British Columbia than non-aboriginal people, according to a recent BC-CfE study.
Fatal drug overdoses falling across B.C., but still high among First Nations
January 6, 2011 | Vancouver Sun
A new BC-CfE study found that First Nations people in British Columbia accounted for a disproportionate number of fatal drug overdoses between 2001 and 2005.
Injecting Truth: RCMP and the truth about safe injection sites
August 20, 2010 | Maclean's
The Mounties were set to publicly acknowledge the benefits of projects like the Insite facility. Then they backed away.