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Peer recovery specialists are well-positioned to engage vulnerable patients, particularly when trained in an evidence-based intervention to promote retention.

This paper aims to inform policy and practice by analysing changes in the tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use of people experiencing homelessness.

To design and deliver effective continuing professional development (CPD) programs, there is a need to clarify how they work within complex health system and policy contexts.

Health risks associated with drug use are concentrated amongst structurally vulnerable people who use illegal drugs (PWUD).

This study aimed to examine international addiction researchers' perspectives on: (i) brain-based explanations of addiction; (ii) the perceived dominance of the concept in science, society, treatme

Opioid use disorder (OUD) and injection drug use (IDU) place justice-involved individuals at increased risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV or hepatitis C virus (HCV).

Our objective was to compare mortality rates for buprenorphine and methadone treatments among a large sample of US patients with OUD.

Gay and bisexual men (GBM) have higher substance use prevalences than general population samples – often attributed to stigmatisation of sexual minority identities.

We explored knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among people who use drugs in Oregon in the context of the emergence of fentanyl in the drug supply.

Few jails and prisons offer MOUD and most limit access.

No data exist from PWID in Upstate New York, and little from outside major US urban centers, on willingness to use supervised injection facilities (SIFs) and associated factors.

Increased police presence may increase or decrease treatment-seeking behavior.

The study's primary aim was to describe patient characteristics associated with engagement, defined as two or more completed visits, and treatment retention at 60 days, defined as a completed visit

Expert consensus can be helpful to classify laws and their provisions by their degree of helpfulness and impact.

In the current study, we aimed to develop and prospectively validate an ML model that could predict individual OUD cases based on representative large-scale health data.

Our aims were to explore court team members’ 1) perceptions of availability of local trustworthy MOUD providers, 2) characteristics associated with perceptions of availability of local trustworthy

In Canada, a federal law was enacted in 2017, the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act (GSDOA), to provide protection from simple drug possession and related charges when 9-1-1 is called to an o