Dr. Evan Wood

Dr. Evan Wood from St. Paul's Hospital discusses addiction in the brain

Posted on Mon, Jun 2, 2014 - 12:00am

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How do opioids affect the brain and body?

Dr. Evan Wood, an addiction specialist at St. Paul’s Hospital, compares the deluge of dopamine that floods the brain after a hit of heroin to the blip the brain would get from a naturally pleasurable experience — a cold glass of water on a hot day, a satisfying meal, sex — to be a ratio of about 1,000 to one. “That’s not an exact number, but it gives a general sense of how intense the feeling is,” he explains.

A Letter to Canada’s Minister of Disease?

Posted on Wed, Oct 23, 2013 - 3:32pm

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drugs, addiction, addicts, heroin, Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, methadone, Dr. Evan Wood

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Dear Rona Ambrose, As a member of the federal government, you are currently titled Canada’s Health Minister. I question the accuracy of that nomenclature.

Vancouver’s New Addiction Medicine Training Program Gets International Nod

Posted on Thu, Jul 18, 2013 - 11:17pm

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Tracey Morrison has had bad experiences with emergency room doctors in the past – she’s even been kicked out without treatment – but she’s hopeful that the new addiction medicine training program at St. Paul’s Hospital will make a difference.

Harper should embrace safe-injection sites: They’re the law-and-order option

Posted on Sun, Jul 7, 2013 - 3:28pm

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As an internal medicine physician who works in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and as a researcher who was responsible for the evaluation of Vancouver’s Insite supervised injecting facility, I have been confused by how entrenched the federal government’s opposition to safe-injection programs has become in recent days – despite the clear support of the Canadian Public Health Association and the Canadian Medical Association. Read more.

Youth on DTES twice as likely to experiment with intravenous drugs: study

Posted on Wed, Jul 3, 2013 - 10:03pm

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A new study has found that youth living on Vancouver’s drug-riddled Downtown Eastside are twice as likely as at-risk youth in other neighbourhoods to experiment with intravenous drugs.