‘Easier to get high than get help’: How a gutsy young rural B.C. doctor helped change that in Hope

Lori Culbert, Jul 10, 2022 – Dr. Aseem Grover found innovative ways to help drug users in Hope — including handing naloxone to dealers and renting a bus to get people to care — until he could create a clinic that offers more services to rural patients.
When family physician Aseem Grover started his first job in this small city, he was pretty shocked to discover that his patients found it “easier to get high than get help.”
The rookie doctor reached out to addictions specialists for mentoring and gathered support from his local colleagues, and then tried — as best he could — to bring urban medicine to this rural community.

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