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Resources
Report | 2022
About PWUD, Safer supply, Housing, Poverty, Stigma
To assess the impact of a pilot advanced pharmacy practice experience on Doctor of Pharmacy students’ knowledge and confidence related to substance use disorders, harm reduction, and co-occurring p
Original research | 2022
About pharmacists
We sought to characterize protocols for buprenorphine initiation among a geographically diverse sample of emergency departments (EDs).
Original research | 2021
Substitution/OAT, Hospitals
To examine how weekly rates of emergency department (ED) visits for drug overdoses changed among individuals with a recent history of homelessness (IRHH) and their housed counterparts during the pr
Original research | 2022
Overdose, About PWUD, Housing
Individuals impacted by someone else’s alcohol, illicit drug, gambling and gaming problems (affected others) experience extensive harms.
Lit review | 2022
Wrap-around services
Opioid agonist medications for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) can improve human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) outcomes and reduce opioid use.
Original research | 2022
Outcomes, Illegal drugs, About PWUD
Commentary | 2022
About PWUD, Transitions in care/treatment, Wrap-around services
Law enforcement drug seizure data present a unique opportunity to examine the association between illicit-stimulant-involved overdose deaths (ISODs) and the illicit drug supply.
Original research | 2022
Overdose, Mortality, About PWUD, Legal system/law enforcement, Illegal drugs, Stimulants
We study doctor shopping behaviour in Västerbotten County of Sweden
Original research | 2022
About prescribers, About PWUD
Due to pandemic protocols in the USA, medication-assisted treatment (MAT) regulations became more flexible, permitting our community-based nonprofit organization to transition its low-threshold MAT cl
Case study | 2021
Policy/Regulatory, About prescribers, Barriers and enablers, Substitution/OAT, Digital health
Understanding substance use treatment experiences is important to improve access, and retention, and no review or synthesis of research addressing the treatment experiences of pregnant women exists
Lit review | 2022
Wrap-around services, About PWUD, Barriers and enablers, Transitions in care/treatment, Sex/Gender , Parents/caregivers
The aim of this paper is to provide a scoping review of the literature on cultural adaptations of SUD treatment for Latinx communities.
Original research | 2022
Equity, About PWUD
The goal of the Best Practice Recommendations is to improve the effectiveness of programs that deliver harm reduction supplies to people who use drugs and are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus
Guide or handbook | 2021
Clinical guidance, Harm reduction, Policy/Regulatory, Wrap-around services, About prescribers, Illegal drugs, Injecting drugs
Two competing concepts address the development of involvement with psychoactive substances: the “gateway hypothesis” (GH) and common liability to addiction (CLA).
Lit review | 2012
Policy/Regulatory, Hesitancy of prescribers , Advocacy, Illegal drugs
Pharmacists often are “gatekeepers” to services and care in their communities and can be important agents for harm reduction services such as syringe access, overdose prevention and other services.
Guide or handbook | 2021
Harm reduction, Safer supply, About pharmacists, Injecting drugs, Stigma
We sought to determine the relationship between methadone dose and injecting behaviours among clients enrolled in the MMT program in Myanmar.
Original research | 2021
Harm reduction, About PWUD, Illegal drugs, Substitution/OAT
Significant associations exist between psychological pain, unmet mental health need, and frequency and severity of substance use among people who use drugs (PWUD), but no studies have analyzed the rel
Original research | 2021
Overdose, About PWUD, Outcomes, Illegal drugs, Sex/Gender , Mental health
This study examined the overall impact of jail incarceration on overdose, the specific hazard for those booked on a syringe-related charge and the proportion of all overdose decedents in the community
Original research | 2022
Overdose, Mortality, About PWUD, Legal system/law enforcement, Illegal drugs
Commentary | 2022
Overdose, Clinical guidance, Harm reduction, Policy/Regulatory, Hesitancy of prescribers , About prescribers, Illegal drugs, SCS/OPS
