[HTML][HTML] Prescribed safer opioid supply: A scoping review of the evidence

S Ledlie, R Garg, C Cheng, G Kolla, T Antoniou… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Safer opioid supply programs provide prescription pharmaceutical opioids,
often with supportive services, to people at high risk of experiencing harms related to …

Public health and prisons: priorities in the age of mass incarceration

DH Cloud, IR Garcia-Grossman… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United
States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass incarceration are deeply …

Effect of Risk Mitigation Guidance opioid and stimulant dispensations on mortality and acute care visits during dual public health emergencies: retrospective cohort …

A Slaunwhite, JE Min, H Palis, K Urbanoski, B Pauly… - bmj, 2024 - bmj.com
Objective To determine the effect of opioid and stimulant Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG)
dispensations on mortality and acute care visits during the dual public health emergencies …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges of implementing safer supply programs in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis

M Karamouzian, B Rafat, G Kolla, K Urbanoski… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Canada is experiencing an unprecedented drug toxicity crisis driven by a highly
toxic unregulated drug supply contaminated with fentanyl, benzodiazepine, and other drugs …

Evaluation of an emergency safe supply drugs and managed alcohol program in COVID-19 isolation hotel shelters for people experiencing homelessness

TD Brothers, M Leaman, M Bonn, D Lewer… - Drug and alcohol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background During a COVID-19 outbreak in the congregate shelter system in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada, a healthcare team provided an emergency “safe supply” of medications and …

Impact of safer supply programs on injection practices: client and provider experiences in Ontario, Canada

M Gagnon, K Rudzinski, A Guta, RA Schmidt… - Harm Reduction …, 2023 - Springer
Objectives Fentanyl has contributed to a sharp rise in the toxicity of the unregulated drug
supply and fatal overdoses in Canada. It has also changed injection practices. Injection …

The practice and embodiment of “goofballs”: a qualitative study exploring the co-injection of methamphetamines and opioids

A Ivsins, T Fleming, A Barker, M Mansoor… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Polysubstance use is common among people who use drugs, including the co-
use of stimulants and opioids. Research suggests the practice of simultaneous co-injection …

Clinical outcomes and health care costs among people entering a safer opioid supply program in Ontario

T Gomes, G Kolla, D McCormack, A Sereda, S Kitchen… - CMAJ, 2022 - Can Med Assoc
Background: London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC) launched a safer opioid supply
(SOS) program in 2016, where clients are prescribed pharmaceutical opioids and provided …

[HTML][HTML] A concept mapping study of service user design of safer supply as an alternative to the illicit drug market

B Pauly, J McCall, F Cameron, H Stuart… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Within North America and worldwide, drug-related overdoses have
increased dramatically over the past decade. COVID-19 escalated the need for a safer …

Moving towards a continuum of safer supply options for people who use drugs: a qualitative study exploring national perspectives on safer supply among professional …

A Foreman-Mackey, B Pauly, A Ivsins… - … , Prevention, and Policy, 2022 - Springer
Background Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply
and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply–low …