Data also indicates the recent emergence of fentanyl-related analogues in this population. The results from this study provide valuable information about drug-related deaths in the Ontario prison system and provide insight into how the opioid crisis and the increased use of fentanyl and its analogues...
Life expectancy at birth did not increase from 2016 to 2017 for the first time in four decades, Statistics Canada said in a statement. "This was largely attributable to theopioid crisis," it said, noting that women in Canada can now expect to live for an average of 84.0 years and men f...
Life expectancy at birth did not increase from 2016 to 2017 for the first time in four decades, Statistics Canada said in a statement. "This was largely attributable to theopioid crisis," it said, noting that women in Canada can now expect to live for an average of 84.0 years and men f...
But the crisis is now also striking people who became addicted to prescribed painkillers before turning to street drugs and others experimenting withrecreational drugsfor the first time. The provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario continue to be the hardest hit but the opioid epidemic has...
Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada We thank Soerensen and colleagues for their interest in our work. We acknowledge that medications given directly to patients would not be captured in our analysis and note this in the Limitations section of the manuscript. Additional research describing ...
Opioids Came for Country Music. It’s Fighting Back With fentanyl and pills flooding communities at the heart of the genre, artists such as Brad Paisley, Elvie Shane, Jaime Wyatt, and others are meeting the crisis in song and in action Jaime Wyatt: “We’ve got to normalize treatment and...
Neonatal drug withdrawal syndrome: cross-country comparison using hospital administrative data in England, the USA, Western Australia and Ontario, Canada. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2016;101(1):F26-F30. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2015-308948 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 31. Arter S...
Study eligibility criteria included individuals who were: 1) currently incarcerated at one of the seven Ontario-based CSC institutions; 2) diagnosed with OUD as per clinical requirement to receive institutional OAT care; 3) involved in CSC’s OAT program for at least 3 months; 4) given a ...
Sadly, it is also likely that the numbers of deaths has continued to increase in this cohort. This analysis highlights the grave impacts the overdose crisis is having on some of the most vulnerable populations of PLWH in the province, greatly thwarting our public health efforts to improve the ...
Ontario's attorney general, Caroline Mulroney, said the province will join a lawsuit launched last year by British Columbia against more than 40 opioid manufacturers and wholesalers. "Theopioid crisishas cost the people of Ontario enormously, both in terms of lives lost and its impact onhealth ca...