Overdose deaths are often viewed as the leading edge of the opioid epidemic which has
gripped the United States over the past two decades (Skolnick, 2018a). This emphasis is …

Opioid overdoses, many of which are attributed to use of illicit fentanyl, are currently one of
the leading causes of death in the US Although fentanyl has been used safely for decades in …

The US mortality rate has gone up three years in a row from 2014 to 2017 (Xu, Murphy,
Kochanek, & Arias, 2016; Murphy, Xu, Kochanek, & Arias, 2018; Kochanek, Murphy, Xu, & …

Methods The Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM), a Canadian
Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)–funded research network composed of four regional …

North America is experiencing an unprecedented overdose crisis driven by the proliferation
of fentanyl and its analogues in the illicit drug supply. In 2018 there were 67,367 drug …

Over the last two decades, opioid-related mortality rates have increased dramatically to
become a serious public health concern in the United States. Opioid-related mortality has …

The opioid crisis is a major public health challenge in the United States, killing about 70,000
people in 2020 alone. Long delays and feedbacks between policy actions and their effects …

Objective: The International Patterns of Opioid Prescribing study compares postoperative
opioid prescribing patterns in the United States (US) versus the rest of the world. Summary …

Fentanyl is a powerful opioid anesthetic and analgesic, the use of which has caused an
increasing public health threat in the United States and elsewhere. Fentanyl was initially …

Objective To compare the risk of mortality among people with opioid use disorder on and off
opioid agonist treatment (OAT) in a setting with a high prevalence of illicitly manufactured …