Discontinuing opioids prescribed for chronic pain was associated with increased risk of overdose, according to a new study from the BC Centre on Substance Use and University of British Columbia-Okanagan published today in PLOS Medicine
[For a first-person account of this program, see www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.220649][1]
KEY POINTS
Between January 2016 and June 2021, 24 626 people died from opioid toxicity in Canada.[1][2] A key driver of this ongoing public health crisis has been the infiltration of illicitly
VANCOUVER Researchers in British Columbia say the expansion of overdose prevention sites in Vancouver led to immediate behaviour changes among some drug users as they entered addiction treatment and decreased the number of times they injected subst
VANCOUVER Researchers in British Columbia say the expansion of overdose prevention sites in Vancouver led to immediate behaviour changes among some drug users as they entered addiction treatment and decreased the number of times they injected subst