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Non-medical prescription opioid use, prescription opioid-related harms and public health in Canada: an update 5 years later.
Can J Public Health
April 2014
Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; Social and Epidemiological Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
Five years ago, we highlighted Canada's emerging problem of prescription opioid (PO)-related harms and emphasized the need for targeted surveillance, research and interventions. Overall levels of PO use in the Canadian population have grown by 70% since then, while at the same time levels of non-medical PO use (NMPOU) in general and in key risk populations have continued to be high; furthermore, PO-related harms - specifically morbidity (e.g.
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