Ressources

There has been little focus on the power of advocacy and community action by people who use drugs (PWUDs).

In other countries, recent research has shown that PWID access to harm reduction services, despite rapid adaptations, has been negatively impacted.

This study examined the perspectives of leadership and staff from a geographically diverse sample of US syringe services programs (SSPs) on factors contributing to the overdose surge, their organiz

La présente étude visait à mieux comprendre la relation entre les blessures, les opioïdes prescrits avant et après une blessure, et l’empoisonnement aux drogues non médicales.

This study aimed to better understand the relationship between injury, opioids prescribed pre- and post-injury, and non-medical drug poisoning

This paper draws on notions of material, social and cultural capital, along with habitus, to examine the experiences of professionals with lower-class backgrounds, in educational programs

The implementation of Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) in Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside in response to the overdose crisis has made it possible for people who use drugs to rec

The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of the substances that were submitted to drug checking in sites across British Columbia, as well as highlight any trends in the unregulated drug s

In response to rising rates of opioid dependence and fatal poisonings, measures were instituted to decrease the prescription, diversion, and nonmedical use of POs including prescription drug monito

This systematic review aims to assess the efficacy of pharmacotherapy for methamphetamine withdrawal, the first comprehensive meta-analysis since 2008.

The study aims to provide insight into the lives of parents to adult children with drug addiction.

Following hospitalization with an injecting-related infection, use of opioid agonist treatment (OAT; methadone or buprenorphine) may be associated with reduced risk of death or rehospitalization wi

It is unclear how patients experience and adjust to losing the possibility of achieving an opioid effect.

Different combinations of substance use and mental health problems require different treatment approaches.

We used cross-national data to examine associations of diverse traumatic events (TEs) with SUD onset, and variation in associations over time.

The current study expands on and integrates previous theoretical models concerning the pathways that link child maltreatment to substance use disorder.

We utilized a newly developed, statewide database to describe epidemiologic characteristics and healthcare utilization among patients with (DU-IE) and without (non-DU-IE) drug use-associated infect

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies acted quickly to remove a legal barrier, effectively allowing people with opioid used disorder (OUD) to initiate buprenorphine treatment via

Although several studies have found a high incidence of coexisting mental health problems among adolescents with substance use problems, follow-up studies addressing how these conditions change ove