Violence is amongst the primary concerns of communities around the world and research has
demonstrated links between violence and the illicit drug trade, particularly in urban settings…

Background Despite widespread implementation of compulsory treatment modalities for
drug dependence, there has been no systematic evaluation of the scientific evidence on the …

… Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index (via Web of Science ® ); CAB Direct; …
16 Self-reported non-medical MA use in the past 12 months Depressive symptoms (CES-D …

Background and Aims Drug checking services provide people who use drugs with chemical
analysis results of their drug samples while simultaneously monitoring the unregulated drug …

Background Substance use-related stigma is a significant barrier to care among persons
who use drugs (PWUD). Less is known regarding how intersectional identities, like gender, …

BACKGROUND: Drug market policing has been associated with various harms among injection
drug users (IDU). However, little is known about instances in which drugs and injecting …

There is a need for creative, public health-oriented solutions to the increasingly intractable
problems associated with the North American opioid epidemic. This epidemic is a …

Background The North American opioid overdose crisis is driven in large part by the presence
of unknown psychoactive adulterants in the dynamic, unregulated drug supply. We herein …

… Dr Werb reported grants from CIHR during the conduct of the study; other from
DoseCheck Technologies where he is a cofounder of a company that is developing a drug-checking …

… Data sources We searched MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Web of Science and six
additional databases for publications from 1 January 1970 through 4 October 2018. …