Prescribing safer opioids to people who use street drugs results in “significant declines” in their emergency room visits, hospital admissions and health care…
A study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal examined people who used a safer opioid supply program in London, Ont., for just over three years, and found ER visits and hospital admissions had declined one year after participants entered the program
A timed series analysis of a safer opioid supply program in Ontario, Canada, showed decreased rates of ED visits, hospitalizations and health care costs, researchers reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Tara Gomes, PhD, MHSc, epidemiologist and principal investigator with the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network in Canada, and colleagues sought to evaluate the impact of a