A5080223932- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Pectus Deformity Diagnosis and Treatment
- Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- Intestinal Malrotation and Obstruction Disorders
- Global Health and Surgery
- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies
- Radiation Dose and Imaging
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Sleep and related disorders
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Musicians’ Health and Performance
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Diverticular Disease and Complications
McMaster University
2019-2025
Impact
2021-2025
Simon Fraser University
2021-2023
Hamilton Health Sciences
2022
Health Sciences Centre
2022
Mbarara National Referral Hospital
2019
University of Alberta
2019
Harvard Global Health Institute
2019
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
2019
University of Calgary
2019
Canada implemented the legalization and regulation of non-medical cannabis use, production sale in 2018 aiming to improve public health safety. While outcomes from reforms other jurisdictions mostly rely on US-based data have been assessed be mixed, Canadian are only emerging. We compiled select population-level key indicators gauge initial developments pre- post-legalization Canada.We examined focusing following topics: prevalence frequency methods/products consumption, driving after...
Cannabis is the most commonly used non-legal drug, especially among young people. In 2018, Canada implemented legalization of non-medical cannabis use and supply for adults.1Fischer B. Jutras-Aswad D. Hall W. Outcomes associated with nonmedical policy in Canada: taking stock at 5-year mark.CMAJ. 2023; 195: E1351-E1353Crossref PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar This reform was framed by multiple primary objectives, which included improved public health, safety youth protection, specifically...
Background: Cannabis legalization policy is increasingly implemented to improve public health and safety outcomes, including in Canada (since 2018). Main outcome assessments have primarily focused on categorical (e.g. pre-/post-) reform effects, while differential regulation frameworks been less considered. For this, provides a rich ecology where provinces diversely define many parameters under the federal umbrella, with Alberta Quebec as respectively least most tightly regulated provincial...
North America has been home to an unprecedented crisis of drug overdose deaths, driven largely by users' exposure highly potent and toxic, illicit opioid drugs (e.g., fentanyl). Although a large diverse menu interventions targeted prevention or treatment measures) implemented expanded in Canada, these have not effectively managed revert reduce this excessive death toll. Given the fact that do directly aim address toxic as primary vector cause acute public health-oriented "safer supply"...
Abstract Canada has been experiencing a prolonged public health‐crisis of high rates overdose deaths caused by exceptionally potent/toxic, illicit opioid use. While many key features this drug death epidemic are well‐documented, several idiosyncratic aspects with relevance for health‐oriented interventions not adequately recognised. These include: (i) the discrepant patterns pan‐Canada, large majorities fentanyl drugs in Western, but Eastern regions where prescription‐type prevail; (ii)...
From about 2000 onward, Canada has presented a remarkable pattern of population-level consumption controlled/prescription opioid substances, the medications chiefly used for pharmacotherapeutic treatment chronic pain. Based on International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) data, Canada's annual rate prescription opioids increased from 8713 Defined Daily Doses (DDD)/1 000 population/day in 2000–2002 to 34 444 DDD/1 000/day 2013–2015 (+295%) but then subsequently reverted and decreased 15 777 by...
Considerable variability exists in the diagnosis and management of acute appendicitis, affecting both quality costs care. This prospective cohort study aimed to decrease unnecessary radiological investigations, standardize imaging, avoid hospital admissions, our institution rate negative appendectomy.A multidisciplinary appendicitis care pathway was implemented. involved use Pediatric Appendicitis Score, standardization ultrasound reporting, risk stratification determine patient disposition....
This study aimed to assess the impact of implementation legally sanctioned supervised consumption sites (SCS) in Canadian province Ontario on opioid-related deaths, emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations at public health unit (PHU) level.