Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative that has increasingly been detected in opioid samples across Canada and may increase the risk of prolonged sedation and overdose. The resource was created by Kali-olt Sedgemore and Emma Kuntz, with funding support from the Vancouver Foundation. Click below…
Congratulations to Cluster members Danya Fast, Scott Hadland, Nic Chadi, Sarah Bagley, Matt Carwana, Roberto Sassi, Rod Knight, and Brandon Marshall, for receiving a three-year Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) entitled, "Adapting, Producing, and Testing a Youth…
Congratulations to Cluster members Cameron and Sofia on receiving $1,000 travel awards for their presentations at the November 25th Evidence to Innovation (E2i) Research Day!Sofia Celis: “The Temporality of Meth Use, Healing, and Recovery Among Youth: A Qualitative Study”Cameron Eekhoudt: “What…
We are excited to share our most recent report on youth housing!This report provides recommendations to guide housing policy and programs for young people who use drugs and who experience homelessness and unstable housing. It draws on a series of ethnographic, qualitative, and community-based…
Congratulations to PhD Trainee, Cameron Eekhoudt, who recently received an Implementing Knowledge Trainee Award from the Evidence to Innovation Theme and the Implementing Knowledge Research Group at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Cameron received this award for a presentation he gave at…
Dr. Danya Fast (Youth Overdose Prevention Cluster Co-Lead) was recently awarded the 2025 Comitas Award for Social Innovation and Public Engagement from the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) and the Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study (CIFAS). This award acknowledges…
Cluster member Dr. Nicholas Chadi was recently awarded the 2025 New Investigator Award from the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction (AMERSA). This recognition is given to an AMERSA member who is at an early stage in their career,…
The the Canadian Paediatric Society's Young Investigator Award is an early-career award that recognizes basic or clinical research accomplishments of a young investigator in fields that benefit child and youth health. Dr. Matt Carwana (Lead of the Youth Overdose Prevention Cluster) was awarded CPA…
The Youth Health Research Program uses qualitative and community-based research methods to examine how contexts and patterns of substance use are influenced by the social and structural conditions of young people’s lives. Led by Dr. Danya Fast in collaboration with the BC Centre on…
