Federal take on opioid indefensible: doctor--OTTAWA - It is indefensible that Health Canada has...Kirkup, Kristy
The advisory was issued by Health Canada Monday morning and cited a review of cough and cold prescription drugs which found the “early use of opioids may be a factor in problematic substance use later in life.” The review did not link opioid-containing medication use in youth with substance...
opioid dependence, cannabis use disorder, schizophrenia and schizophrenic psychoses, depressive disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, anorexia nervosa, Tourette’s syndrome, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [99], autism spectrum disorder [100, 101] or dementia [13, 15]. In these studies, THC...
Incarcerated populations experience an elevated prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD). Federal correctional institutions in Canada have increasingly treated OUD among correctional populations via opioid agonist treatment (OAT) – an evidence based phar
Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) experiences and release plans among federally incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) in Ontario, Canada: a mixed-methods study. BMC Public Health. 2022;22(1):436. doi:10.1186/s12889-022-12685-0PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 42. Shavit S,...
In the wake of recent crack pipe distribution services expansion, we utilized data from long running cohort studies to estimate the impact of crack pipe distribution services on the rates of health problems associated with crack smoking in Vancouver, Canada. Data were derived from two prospective ...
Health Canada to Allow More Access to Prescription Heroin to Curb Opioid CrisisHealth Canada improves access to medical heroin--VANCOUVER - Health Canada's proposal to loosen...Bains, Camille
11 Prescribed safer supply, also known as safer opioid supply and prescribed alternatives, has been implemented in Canada under a medical model in which physicians or nurse practitioners prescribe pharmaceutical medications to patients as a safer alternative to the toxic, unregulated drug supply. A ...
We used a cohort of patients previously derived and published to evaluate trends in opioid use in the province of Alberta, Canada [84]. The following administrative databases from Alberta Health from 2012 to 2018 were linked by the encrypted personal health number (PHN). ...
Steingart C, Fraser C, Stewart K, Deshaies L, Thomas R, Webster D, Macphail G, Powis J, Cox J, Feld JJ, McGovern ME, Trepanier JB, Drolet M (2020) Characterization of HCV-infected people who inject drugs (PWID) in the setting of clinical care in Canada (CAPICA): a retrospective ...