Publications by authors named "Margret Lo"
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- - On January 31, 2023, British Columbia implemented a three-year exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, allowing adults to possess up to 2.5 grams of specific unregulated drugs, aiming to reduce the harms associated with drug criminalization and overdose deaths.
- - A study involving 100 telephone interviews was conducted to assess drug users' awareness of the new policy and its effects on their drug use and overdose risks; while many were aware of the policy, some misconceptions existed, and participants indicated a need for better information dissemination.
- - Participants reported that most of their drug use habits did not change significantly, though some adjusted their behavior to stay within the legal limits; they acknowledged potential benefits of the policy, like
Background And Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted the scientific community to collaborate in an unprecedented way, with the rapid and urgent generation and translation of new knowledge about the disease and its causative agent. Iteratively, and at different levels of government and globally, population-level guidance was created and updated, resulting in the need for a living catalog of guidelines, the eCOVID-19 Recommendations Map and Gateway to Contextualization (RecMap). This article focuses on the approach that was used to analyze barriers and opportunities associated with using the RecMap in public health in Canada.
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