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G. R. WALTON ; K. HAYASHI ; P. BACH ; H. DONG ; T. KERR ; K. AHAMAD ; M. J. MILLOY ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |OBJECTIVE: Illicit drug use is a well-established risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality. However, little is known about the impact of benzodiazepine use on mortality among populations of polysubstance users. This study aimed to ident[...]Article : Périodique
There has been widespread support for harm reduction programs as an essential component for responding to the HIV and illicit drug use epidemics. However, despite the growing international acceptance of harm reduction, there continues to be stro[...]Article : Périodique
S. NOLAN ; V. DIAS LIMA ; N. FAIRBAIRN ; T. KERR ; J. MONTANER ; J. GREBELY ; E. WOOD |Aims: To determine the relationship between methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) and hepatitis C (HCV) seroconversion among illicit drug users. Design: A generalized estimating equation model assuming a binomial distribution and a logit-link fu[...]Périodique
J. E. BUTTERS | 2004ENGLISH : Drug education programs that rely on an abstinence based philosophy neglect, and may even contribute to, the potentially adverse consequences experienced by young people who already engage in this potentially health-compromising beha[...]Article : Périodique
The implementation and public health impacts of cannabis legalization in Canada: a systematic review
AIMS: We provide a narrative summary of research on changes in cannabis arrests, cannabis products and prices, cannabis use and cannabis-related harm since legalization. METHODS: We systematically searched for research on the impacts of cannab[...]Article : Périodique
T. A. BARNETT ; GAUVIN L. ; M. LAMBERT ; J. O'LOUGHLIN ; G. PARADIS ; J. J. MCGRATH |OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between smoking behavior among secondary school students and school smoking policies. DESIGN: Cross-sectional provincially representative study. SETTING: Quebec secondary schools. PARTICIPANTS: Complete [...]Article : Périodique
In 2005, members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) formed the Injection Support Team (IST). A community-based research project examined this drug-user-led intervention through observation of team activities, over 30 interviews [...]Article : Périodique
In the the past two decades the medical use of prescription opioids (POs), in particular oxycodone, increased up to 14-fold in the U.S. and Canada. The high consumption of these pain relievers also led to non-medical use and abuse of these subst[...]Chapitre
C. A. DELL ; 54th semiannual meeting of the CEWG (June 24-27, 2003; St Louis, Missouri) | Bethesda, MD : NIDA | 2004Chaired by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Canadas national addictions agency, the CCENDU is a multilevel collaborative drug surveillance project. CCENDU collects, analyzes, and disseminates quantitative and qualitative information on dr[...]Article : Périodique
C. LONG ; T. GUIMOND ; A. M. BAYOUMI ; M. FIRESTONE ; C. STRIKE |Background: Whereas supervised consumption services (SCSs) are common in many community settings, they are seldomly found in acute care hospitals. As hospitals present unique circumstances that can shape the impacts of an SCS, careful considerat[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: This paper provides a historical review of gambling in Canada and examines the benefits and shortcomings of present-day Canadian gambling policies and practices. This includes a discussion of provincial and federal government roles in gamb[...]Rapport
FRANÇAIS : La Commission globale de politique en matière de drogues publie sa position sur La crise des opioïdes en Amérique du Nord. Avec près de 64 000 décès liés aux surdoses rien qu'aux États-Unis l'année dernière, il est difficile de minim[...]Rapport
The potential expansion of methamphetamine production and distribution in Canada. A background study
PREVALENCE: The use of methamphetamine in Canada is low relative to the abuse of other substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis. Overall, its use is still less than that of cocaine and heroin; however, its prevalence may be considered a[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; W. SMALL ; M. W. TYNDALL ; R. S. HOGG ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; M. T. SCHECHTER |Background: Although medically supervised safer injecting facilities (SIFs) remain untested in North America, their implementation is currently being debated. Reluctance of health policy makers to initiate a pilot study of SIFs may in part be hi[...]Chapitre
J. C. MAXWELL ; B. A. RUTKOWSKI | 2010In this article, Jane Carlisle Maxwell and Beth A. Rutkowski investigate trends pertaining to the use of amphetamine and methamphetamine. They review various types of data collected in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The data show similar[...]Article : Périodique
This review examines the prevention of HIV infection among injecting drug users through the framework provided by the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion. Among the key issues considered are the problems of achieving the changes in policy and ser[...]Article : Périodique
The legitimacy of government-sponsored gambling and its continued expansion depends in part on the impact that gambling has on society and the extent to which gambling revenue is derived from vulnerable individuals. The purpose of the present ar[...]Périodique
ENGLISH : The primary response to the harms associated with illicit injection drug use in most settings has involved intensifying law enforcement in an effort to limit the supply and use of drugs. Policing approaches have been increasingly app[...]Article : Périodique
T. STOCKWELL ; J. ZHAO ; N. GIESBRECHT ; S. MACDONALD ; G. THOMAS ; A. WETTLAUFER |Objectives. We report impacts on alcohol consumption following new and increased minimum alcohol prices in Saskatchewan, Canada. Methods. We conducted autoregressive integrated moving average time series analyses of alcohol sales and price dat[...]Article : Périodique
J. ZHAO ; T. STOCKWELL ; G. MARTIN ; S. MACDONALD ; K. VALLANCE ; A. TRENO ; W. R. PONICKI ; A. TU |Aim: To investigate relationships between periodic increases in minimum alcohol prices, changing densities of liquor stores and alcohol-attributable (AA) deaths in British Columbia, Canada. Design: Cross-section (16 geographic areas) versus ti[...]Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Le lien entre létat psychosocial et lusage dalcools et de drogues a été évalué chez 90 usagers, 12 mois après traitement pour abus d'alcool, de drogue ou les deux combinés. On a constaté une absence générale de corrélation entre léta[...]Périodique
E. SINGLE ; J. REHM ; L. ROBSON ; VAN TRUONG M. | 2000ENGLISH : BACKGROUND: In 1996 the number of deaths and admissions to hospital in Canada that could be attributed to the use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs were estimated from 1992 data. In this paper we update these estimates to the yea[...]Périodique
Article : Périodique
M. M. YOUNG ; T. PIRIE ; J. A. BUXTON ; S. HOSEIN |FRANÇAIS : L'information recueillie, synthétisée et diffusée par le Réseau communautaire canadien d'épidémiologie des toxicomanies (RCCET) concernant l'apparition du fentanyl ou d'analogues du fentanyl sur le marché illicite est présentée comme[...]