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BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
July/August 2020
... (COVID-19) is taking a devastating toll globally. As of May 2020, there have been 76 000 cases of COVID-19 ... an ongoing public health emergency was declared in April 2016 related to high rates of drug overdose deaths. In the ... making it difficult to determine implicated substances and issue meaningful community alerts. Overdose deaths increased ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Brandon Yau, MD
October 2018
... morbidity and mortality associated with activities that may cause harm. Harm reduction applied to substance use is a ... replaced the policy of needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs declined from ... harm-reduction services. Physicians can help address the issue of marginalization by examining their own assumptions ...
President's Comment /
BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB,
March 2008
... practising BCMA members were invited to participate, and 2016 members completed the survey, giving it an impressive ... response rate. The full results are enclosed in this issue of the BCMJ, and I encourage you to read them. On the ... that affect practising members. These last two concerns may be addressed with the implementation of the proposed ...