Practice
Open Access
Caring for people who inject drugs when they are admitted to hospital
Thomas D. Brothers, John Fraser and Duncan Webster
CMAJ March 22, 2021 193 (12) E423-E424; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.202124
Thomas D. Brothers
Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinician Investigator Program (Brothers), and Division of Infectious Diseases (Webster), Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University; Mobile Outreach Street Health (Fraser), North End Community Health Centre, Halifax, NS; UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health (Brothers), Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, University College London, London, UK; Division of Infectious Diseases (Webster), Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB
MDJohn Fraser
Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinician Investigator Program (Brothers), and Division of Infectious Diseases (Webster), Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University; Mobile Outreach Street Health (Fraser), North End Community Health Centre, Halifax, NS; UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health (Brothers), Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, University College London, London, UK; Division of Infectious Diseases (Webster), Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB
MDDuncan Webster
Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinician Investigator Program (Brothers), and Division of Infectious Diseases (Webster), Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University; Mobile Outreach Street Health (Fraser), North End Community Health Centre, Halifax, NS; UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health (Brothers), Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, University College London, London, UK; Division of Infectious Diseases (Webster), Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB
MDIn this issue
Article tools
Caring for people who inject drugs when they are admitted to hospital
Thomas D. Brothers, John Fraser, Duncan Webster
CMAJ Mar 2021, 193 (12) E423-E424; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.202124
Jump to section
- Article
- Injection drug use and associated hospital admissions are increasingly common in Canada
- People who inject drugs may not be comfortable disclosing substance use
- Starting treatment for substance use disorders in hospital improves outcomes
- Effectively treating opioid withdrawal reduces premature patient-initiated discharges against medical advice
- Hospitals should offer harm reduction services
- Footnotes
- References
- Responses
- Metrics