Oct 13, 2026 · 26 min · 13 segments
In this episode, host David P. Ball and Dr. Alison Hamilton are back to talk to returning Season 2 guests, research scientist Dr. Geoff Bardwell, and nurse practitioner Kate Hodgson. Listeners may…
And I also wanna note that you were both on an episode of Addiction Practice Pod a long time ago in 2021.
It's five-year anniversary of that show in that we talked about rural and remote substance use care.
When we completed that podcast, I was a registered nurse, and I was working as a practice lead for the First Nations Health Authority, um, working closely with the Ministry of Health to help implement registered nurse and registered psychiatric nurse prescribing into operation.
I've been practicing as a nurse practitioner now for three years, and I've actually been involved with some of Jeff's research as a novice researcher.
And we were able to look at some qualitative research in the community I work in, Kitimat, around barriers to opioid agonist treatment here.
We've, we did a three-year project in the northern Sunshine Coast and looking at access and also thinking about, uh, novel ways to address opioid agonist treatment access in the region and elsewhere.
And I've also been doing some research, uh, more locally in Waterloo region, and so we've been looking at changes to police practice around drug possession.
I've also done some work in Northern Ontario, uh, specifically in Sudbury around the closure of, uh, the, their only supervised consumption sites, and we did some mapping around where people are accessing services and w- what's that like in, in terms of, uh, its relationship to where people live, where people access other services, and stuff like that.
Yeah, so still doing similar work but expanding the communities that I'm working in and, like, kind of the subject area.
And I also wanna note that you were both on an episode of Addiction Practice Pod a long time ago in 2021.
It's five-year anniversary of that show in that we talked about rural and remote substance use care.
When we completed that podcast, I was a registered nurse, and I was working as a practice lead for the First Nations Health Authority, um, working closely with the Ministry of Health to help implement registered nurse and registered psychiatric nurse prescribing into operation.
I've been practicing as a nurse practitioner now for three years, and I've actually been involved with some of Jeff's research as a novice researcher.
And we were able to look at some qualitative research in the community I work in, Kitimat, around barriers to opioid agonist treatment here.
We've, we did a three-year project in the northern Sunshine Coast and looking at access and also thinking about, uh, novel ways to address opioid agonist treatment access in the region and elsewhere.
And I've also been doing some research, uh, more locally in Waterloo region, and so we've been looking at changes to police practice around drug possession.
I've also done some work in Northern Ontario, uh, specifically in Sudbury around the closure of, uh, the, their only supervised consumption sites, and we did some mapping around where people are accessing services and w- what's that like in, in terms of, uh, its relationship to where people live, where people access other services, and stuff like that.
Yeah, so still doing similar work but expanding the communities that I'm working in and, like, kind of the subject area.
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