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PART 2: From Safe Supply to Suboxone: Tools for Dealing with a Crisis with Dr.Paxton Bach
Episode 8
Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
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 delivering addictions medicine care, really not a structured model at all?In Part 2, Dr.Bach weighs in on how fragmented episodic addictions care is failing all stakeholders and what needs to be doneABOUT Dr.Paxton Bach MD, MSc, ABIM, FRCPCPaxton Bach MD, MSc, ABIM, FRCPC is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a general internist and addiction medicine physician at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, BC. He additionally serves as the Co-Medical Director for the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, and is the Director of the BCCSU Clinical Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program.Dr. Bach is certified as a specialist in General Internal Medicine through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and an Addiction Medicine specialist through the International Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Board of Preventative Medicine.
