Can cutting back on smoking cigarettes help some drug users quit opioids? Researchers with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute think so. After a six month-trial involving 80…

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Toronto collaborators repeat lessons of ‘transformative’ project to help people in poverty stop smoking
Eva Scott started smoking by the time she was 11 and calls smoking her drug of “last resort” to ease the trauma of years of alcoholism and homelessness. Scott stopped drinking…
Vaping to be studied as a way for homeless to kick smoking habit
An Ottawa doctor is leading a study to see if vaping can help homeless people in the city kick their addiction to smoking tobacco. The nation’s capital has one of the lowest…
PROMPT quit smoking program helps butt out drug use
Researchers say a community program aimed at helping some of Ottawa’s most vulnerable people quit smoking is also pushing them to kick drug habits. Kelly Florence, a peer…