Importance Studies have suggested a rise in opioid-and stimulant-involved overdoses in
recent years in North America. This risk may be acute for individuals who have had contact …

Background The overdose crisis in North America has prompted system-level efforts to
restrict opioid prescribing for chronic pain. However, little is known about how discontinuing …

Background Research in paramedicine faces challenges in developing research capacity,
including access to high-quality data. A variety of unique factors in the paramedic work …

Background: Visits to the emergency department are critical opportunities to engage
individuals after an overdose. We sought to estimate and compare the 12-month mortality …

Background With millions of unscheduled patient contacts every year and increasing call
outs clustered around the most deprived communities, it is clear the ambulance sector could …

Background: People recently released from prison are at increased risk of preventable
death; however, the impact of the current overdose epidemic on this population is unknown …

Background Stimulant use has been rising among people with opioid use disorder in recent
years in North America, alongside a parallel rise in illicit drug toxicity (overdose) deaths. This …

Background and aims Despite the significant burden of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and
availability of safe and effective medications for AUD (MAUD), population‐level estimates of …

Background As Canada continues to experience an opioid crisis, it is important to
understand the intersection between the demographic, socioeconomic and service use …

Background A lack of large-scale, individually linked data often has impeded efforts to
disentangle individual-level variability in outcomes from area-level variability in studies of …