The epidemiology of benzodiazepine misuse: a systematic review

VR Votaw, R Geyer, MM Rieselbach… - Drug and alcohol …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Benzodiazepine misuse is a growing public health problem, with increases in
benzodiazepine-related overdose deaths and emergency room visits in recent years …

Worldwide prevalence and trends in unintentional drug overdose: a systematic review of the literature

SS Martins, L Sampson… - American journal of …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Background. Drug overdose is an important, yet an inadequately understood, public health
problem. Global attention to unintentional drug overdose has been limited by comparison …

Situating the continuum of overdose risk in the social determinants of health: a new conceptual framework

JN Park, S Rouhani, LEO Beletsky… - The Milbank …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Policy Points This article reconceptualizes our understanding of the opioid epidemic and
proposes six strategies that address the epidemic's social roots. In order to successfully …

Supervised injection facilities in Canada: past, present, and future

T Kerr, S Mitra, MC Kennedy, R McNeil - Harm reduction journal, 2017 - Springer
Canada has long contended with harms arising from injection drug use. In response to
epidemics of HIV infection and overdose in Vancouver in the mid-1990s, a range of actors …

Public health and public order outcomes associated with supervised drug consumption facilities: a systematic review

MC Kennedy, M Karamouzian, T Kerr - Current Hiv/aids Reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Supervised drug consumption facilities (SCFs) have
increasingly been implemented in response to public health and public order concerns …

Drug policy and the public good

T Babor - 2010 - books.google.com
Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Hospitals as a 'risk environment': an ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who …

R McNeil, W Small, E Wood, T Kerr - Social science & medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
People who inject drugs (PWID) experience high levels of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C (HCV)
infection that, together with injection-related complications such as non-fatal overdose and …

Treatment of medical, psychiatric, and substance-use comorbidities in people infected with HIV who use drugs

FL Altice, A Kamarulzaman, VV Soriano, M Schechter… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
HIV-infected drug users have increased age-matched morbidity and mortality compared with
HIV-infected people who do not use drugs. Substance-use disorders negatively affect the …

Non-fatal overdose as a risk factor for subsequent fatal overdose among people who inject drugs

A Caudarella, H Dong, MJ Milloy, T Kerr… - Drug and alcohol …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives To examine the relationship between non-fatal overdose and risk of subsequent
fatal overdose. Methods We assessed risk factors for overdose death among two …

Methadone continuation versus forced withdrawal on incarceration in a combined US prison and jail: a randomised, open-label trial

JD Rich, M McKenzie, S Larney, JB Wong, L Tran… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Methadone is an effective treatment for opioid dependence. When people who
are receiving methadone maintenance treatment for opioid dependence are incarcerated in …