The role of depression and social support in non-fatal drug overdose among a cohort of injection drug users in a Canadian setting

R Pabayo, C Alcantara, I Kawachi, E Wood… - Drug and alcohol …, 2013 - Elsevier
… who inject drugs (IDU). … overdose. Therefore, we sought to determine whether depressive
symptoms and social support predicted non-fatal overdose among IDU in a Canadian setting. …

'It's more about the heroin': injection drug users' response to an overdose warning campaign in a Canadian setting

T Kerr, W Small, E Hyshka, L Maher, K Shannon - Addiction, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… Other authors working in our setting have called for the implementation of elaborate
overdose warning strategies that include use of peer networks to disseminate such warnings 7. …

Elevated overdose mortality rates among First Nations individuals in a Canadian setting: a population‐based analysis

MJ Milloy, E Wood, C Reading, D Kane, J Montaner… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… non-Aboriginal Canadians [31]. In short, our findings suggest that illicit drug overdose deaths
among First Nations groups, especially women, should be a major public health concern. …

[HTML][HTML] Supporting community overdose response planning in Ontario, Canada: Findings from a situational assessment

T Khorasheh, CB AbuAyyash, M Mallakin, K Sellen… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
… or overdose. Throughout this paper, we refer to them as overdose response plans to recognise
that drug overdose is … As communities set out to develop and implement local overdose

Drug use patterns predict risk of non-fatal overdose among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting

G Mitra, E Wood, P Nguyen, T Kerr, K DeBeck - Drug and alcohol …, 2015 - Elsevier
… with non-fatal overdose among Canadian street-involved youth who reported illicit drug use.
… in Vancouver, Canada, we identified youth without a history of overdose and employed Cox …

[HTML][HTML] A drug-related Good Samaritan Law and calling emergency medical services for drug overdoses in a Canadian setting

S Moallef, JC Choi, MJ Milloy, K DeBeck, T Kerr… - Harm reduction …, 2021 - Springer
… Although we cannot determine the setting of the witnessed overdose event in our study, the
… places where fatal overdoses occurred [44]. Indeed, studies in Canada and the USA have …

[HTML][HTML] The implementation of overdose prevention sites as a novel and nimble response during an illegal drug overdose public health emergency

B Wallace, F Pagan, BB Pauly - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
… increasing illegal drug overdose deaths in Canada and the … be set up quite easily, I mean
we basically had ours set up in … , “the biggest hurdle of setting up the room was ventilation” as …

Awareness of fentanyl exposure and the associated overdose risks among people who inject drugs in a Canadian setting

K Hayashi, E Wood, H Dong, JA Buxton… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… our study setting also reported that some women who use drugs do not utilise housing-based
overdose prevention sites (ie supervised consumption sites) and intentionally used drugs

[HTML][HTML] Impact of overdose prevention sites during a public health emergency in Victoria, Canada

B Pauly, B Wallace, F Pagan, J Phillips, M Wilson… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… who is the first responder and mitigates the risk of overdoses driven by the outer context (eg
changes in the illicit drug market) by modifying the inner setting to be a safer space for use. …

Trajectories of retention in opioid agonist therapy and overdose risk during a community-wide overdose epidemic in a Canadian setting

ME Socías, H Dong, E Wood, S Nolan… - American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
… longitudinal patterns of retention in OAT and assess their association with overdose risk
among people initiating OAT in Vancouver, Canada, a setting with low-barrier access to OAT. …