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(Society for the Study of Addiction, 2013-06)
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(Elsevier Ltd., 2013-05)Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of administrative sanctions introduced as part of a new law for drinking drivers in British Columbia, Canada. The new law, known as immediate roadside ...
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(American Journal of Public Health, 2013-04)Objectives. We investigated whether periodic increases in minimum alcohol prices were associated with reduced alcohol-attributable hospital admissions in British Columbia. Methods. The longitudinal panel study (2002–2009) ...
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(American Journal of Public Health, 2012-10)Objectives. We report impacts on alcohol consumption following new and increased minimum alcohol prices in Saskatchewan, Canada. Methods. We conducted autoregressive integrated moving average time series analyses of ...
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(BioMed Central, 2012-10-15)Abstract Retrenchment of government services has occurred across a wide range of sectors and regions. Care services, in particular, have been clawed away in the wake of fiscal policies of cost containment and neoliberal ...
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(BioMed Central, 2012-01-03)Background: In 2001 Health Canada responded to a series of Ontario court decisions by creating the Marihuana Medical Access Division (MMAD) and the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR). Although Health Canada has ...
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(BioMed Central, 2012-01-25)Background: Substitution with opioid-agonists (e.g., methadone) has shown to be an effective treatment for chronic long-term opioid dependency. Survival sex work, very common among injection drug users, has been associated ...
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(BioMed Central, 2011-07-26)Background: Substitution with opioid-agonists (e.g., methadone) has shown to be an effective treatment for chronic long-term opioid dependency. Patient satisfaction with treatment has been associated with improved addiction ...
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(BioMed Central, 2009-02-25)Background: There is little research on the relationship between key socioeconomic variables and alcohol related harms in Australia. The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between income inequality and ...
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(BioMed Central, 2008-01-28)Background: In response to a number of court challenges brought forth by Canadian patients who demonstrated that they benefited from the use of medicinal cannabis but remained vulnerable to arrest and persecution as a ...
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(Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2014-06-08)Background: The most widely used maintenance treatment for opioid dependency is substitution with long-acting oral opioids. Treatment with injectable diacetylmorphine provides an opportunity for patients to stabilize and ...
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(Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2014-09-29)Background: The North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) clinical trial compared the effectiveness of injectable diacetylmorphine (DAM) or hydromorphone (HDM) to oral methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). This ...
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Primary health care utilization for alcohol-attributed diseases in British Columbia Canada 2001–2011 (BMC Family Practice, 2015-03-11)Background: The purpose of this study was to determine whether general practitioner visits for alcohol-attributed diseases increased in a decade when several regulatory changes were made to the distribution and price of ...
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(International Journal for Equity in Health, 2015-08-25)Introduction: Consumption of substances is a highly controversial behaviour, with those who do so commonly viewed as deviants, even criminals, or else as out of control addicts. In other work we showed that the use of ...
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(Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2015-09-24)From INEBRIA 12th Congress, Atlanda, GA, USA. 24-25 September 2015
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(International Journal of Drug Policy, 2019)Background Drug-related overdoses were declared a public health emergency in British Columbia, Canada in April, 2016 facilitating the scale-up of responses including rapid sanctioning and implementation of overdose ...
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