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 concern …

Background Cannabis use is common, and associated with adverse health outcomes. ‘Routes
of administration’ (ROAs) for cannabis use have increasingly diversified, in part …

… We appreciate the lessons outlined by Benedikt Fischer and colleagues 1 in their Comment
on the opioid overdose crisis in Canada. From the frontline perspective, working at an …

Background. Cannabis use is common in North America, especially among young people,
and is associated with a risk of various acute and chronic adverse health outcomes. Cannabis …

This document was published by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) as an
aid to understanding and interpreting the detailed report of The Costs of Substance Abuse in …

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-…

This paper problematises the emergence and functioning of the recent phenomenon of ‘supervised
injection sites’ (SISs) as a case study of post-welfarist governmentality. We propose …

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

In Canada, opioid-related overdose mortality has steeply increased in recent years; as a
substantial number of opioid-related deaths are related to fentanyl products, this phenomenon …

… Benedikt Fischer acknowledges research support from the Chair in Addiction, Department
of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. The four nodes of the Canadian Research Initiative in …