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 …

An overreliance on opioids has impacted all types of pain management, making it
undoubtedly a root cause of the “epidemic” of prescription opioid abuse in the United States …

'The Globalization of Addiction'presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction.
Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to …

Introduction: Opioid-related mortality appears to be increasing in Canada. We examined the
true extent of the problem and the impact of the introduction of long-acting oxycodone …

Debates about which policy initiatives can prevent or reduce the damage that illicit drugs
cause to the public good are rarely informed by scientific evidence. Fortunately, evidence …

In the the past two decades the medical use of prescription opioids (POs), in particular
oxycodone, increased up to 14-fold in the US and Canada. The high consumption of these …

Background: The non-medical use of and harms related to prescription opioid (PO)
analgesics–key medications to treat severe and chronic pain-are an emerging public health …

Aims This paper aims to identify possible system‐level factors contributing to the marked
differences in the levels of non‐medical prescription opioid use (NMPOU) and prescription …

Aims To examine trends in prescription opioid (PO) injection and to assess its association
with hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroconversion among injection drug users (IDUs). Design …

Objective: Population health surveys around the world have studied the epidemiology of
comorbid substance use disorders (SUDs) and other mental disorders as part of larger …