@Paxbach

Clinical Assistant Professor @UBCDoM | General internist / addiction medicine physician | Co-Medical Director @BCCSU. All views my own. (he/him)

 Vancouver, British Columbia
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Joined February 2013
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The BMJ
@bmj_latest11 Jan 2024
Opioid overdoses are a public health emergency in North America and internationally. Can a safer supply intervention reduce mortality and acute care visits? New #BMJResearch investigates bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023…

Effect of Risk Mitigation Guidance for opioid and stimulant dispensations on mortality and acute...

Objective To determine the effect of opioid and stimulant Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) dispensations on mortality and acute care visits during the dual public health emergencies of overdose and...

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Paxton Bach MD, MSc retweeted
André Picard@picardonhealth12 Jan 2024
B.C. study on lives saved by prescribing #opioids a 'watershed moment' in #SaferSupply debate: researcher, by @katiederosayyj vancouversun.com/news/study-… via @VancouverSun @akslaunwhite @Paxbach #HarmReduction

B.C. study on lives saved by prescribing opioids a 'watershed moment' in safer supply debate:...

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Very proud of all the work that went into this, thanks to everyone that helped contribute to advancing the standard of care for OUD in BC!
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Paxton Bach MD, MSc retweeted
St Paul's Foundation@helpstpauls9 Nov 2023
The generosity of our donors help support life-changing addiction care and outreach efforts for Road to Recovery at St. Paul's Hospital. Today, we are celebrating West Pender Property Group for their recent $500,000 commitment towards R2R. Learn more at: bit.ly/40x95nP
West Pender Property Group's Peter Bull, chairman, and Colin Murray, president, along with BCCSU's Guy Felicella and addiction medicine Drs. Nadia Fairbairn and Paxton Bach, all standing in front of the Road to Recovery Unit at St. Paul's Hospital.

ALT West Pender Property Group's Peter Bull, chairman, and Colin Murray, president, along with BCCSU's Guy Felicella and addiction medicine Drs. Nadia Fairbairn and Paxton Bach, all standing in front of the Road to Recovery Unit at St. Paul's Hospital.

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Paxton Bach MD, MSc retweeted
André Picard@picardonhealth23 Aug 2023
.@PierrePoilievre is exploiting the drug crisis for political gain and “capitalizing on people’s suffering” by making videos featuring homeless people afflicted by drugs, new Minister of Mental Health and Addictions @YaaraSaks says. theglobeandmail.com/politics… via @globeandmail

New federal Addictions Minister accuses Pierre Poilievre of ‘capitalizing on people’s suffering’

Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Ya’ara Saks says the Conservative Leader is exploiting the drug crisis for political gain by making videos featuring homeless people afflicted by drugs in...

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Paxton Bach MD, MSc retweeted
Shawn Cohen@ShawnCohen_MD8 Aug 2023
*Calling all hospital clinicians caring for people with OUD* (should be all hospital clinicians) If you start methadone in the hospital, two papers just came out that should change the way we do it in the era of fentanyl. Let's talk about hospital-based methadone initiations!!!
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New brief report in @JAM_ASAM: Safety and Efficacy of Rapid Methadone Titration for Opioid Use Disorder in an Inpatient Setting: A Retrospective Cohort Study Why is this topic so very, very important? A thread... journals.lww.com/journaladdi…
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See similar work by @DrMeganBuresh and colleagues below: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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May be of specific interest to @DrRuthPotee @_DavidLawrence7 @ZoeWeinstein @DrMeganBuresh @PaulJoudreyMD @MethadoneLib @DrSarahWakeman @DrKimSue @ShadiNahvi @highway_dave
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This is an absolute crisis "In 2015, the ave life expectancy for a First Nation man was 67 – today…[it is] 60. For First Nations women, it’s gone from 73…to 66 years in 2021. The life expectancy of a non-First Nations man is 79. For…women it is 84." aptnnews.ca/national-news/fi…

Life expectancy for First Nations in Alta. drops seven years

From 2015-21, the life expectancy dropped seven years for First Nations men and women living in Alberta due in part to drug overdoses.

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Paxton Bach MD, MSc retweeted
Ben O'Hara-Byrne@Ben_oharabyrne4 Jul 2023
Tonight on A Little More Conversation Corus Radio 7-10pmPT @GidMK WHO to reclassify Aspartame as a possible carcinogen, what does that mean? @Paxbach on tackling the opioid OD crisis @moryan on her book Burn it Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood +more
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Paxton Bach MD, MSc retweeted
Paul Joudrey@PaulJoudreyMD30 Jun 2023
👉Our new research on the changes in methadone treatment within Canada, Australia and the US during the COVID 19 pandemic #methadone @PittGIM @MethadoneLib doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2023…
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