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The objective of this study was to explore pharmacists’ attitudes, knowledge, and experiences in providing naloxone, dispensing buprenorphine, and selling nonprescription syringes following partici

We provide a synopsis of the 2024 update of the 2018 National Guideline for the Clinical Management of Opioid Use Disorder, from the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM).

This study examines how women's feelings of bodily agency while receiving MMT through Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) can impact treatment retention.

In 2017, the Fraser Health Authority developed a training program for direct service providers designed to address the connection between provider stress and patient care—a mental health and resili

This study investigates whether there is a community-level relationship between alcohol sales and opioid-related overdose deaths to inform the situating of harm reduction efforts in spaces most lik

In 2018, the planned opening of a second Needle and Syringe Exchange Program (NSP) unit in Stockholm, Sweden, was stopped with reference to protests from the public.

The aim of this review was to classify impacts of climate change for people who use alcohol and other drugs (AoD), as reflected in peer reviewed literature.

The aim of this paper is to outline this position with reference to the evidence for harm reduction, and to argue that harm reduction needs to be implemented into mainstream healthcare settings to

This study was undertaken to examine the experiences and perspectives of Indigenous Peoples who use illicit drugs (IPWUID) in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver regarding the drug poisoning crisis

The current qualitative study examines the perspectives of women with opioid use disorder (OUD) and professionals that serve them on barriers to engaging in overdose prevention and harm reduction p

Drugs sold on cryptomarkets are thought to have lower levels of adulteration and higher strength compared with those sourced off-line.

The Community Urinalysis and Self-Report Project (CUSP) is a low-barrier sentinel surveillance system developed to better understand use of drugs from the unregulated supply.

Is compulsory unpaid labor essential addiction “therapy” or unjust exploitation?

In an Indigenous Health Service hospital in rural Minnesota, the pharmacy sought to integrate harm reduction and express Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) services into its scope of practice.

The number of overdose deaths since 1999 has steadily increased in large part due to the presence of synthetic opioids in the US drug supply.

Safer supply programs are intended to reduce overdose events by limiting people's use of the contaminated drug supply, but the experiences of people receiving hydromorphone vary.

This study aimed to estimate the risk of opioid-related poisonings and mental and behavioural disorders by occupation and industry within a cohort of 1.7 million formerly injured workers.

In the US context of an unprecedented magnitude of drug overdose deaths and during the fentanyl era, it becomes increasingly imperative to identify longitudinal predictors to inform targeted preven

To assess the risk of treatment discontinuation and mortality among individuals receiving buprenorphine/naloxone vs methadone for the treatment of opioid use disorder.