Violence is amongst the primary concerns of communities around the world and research has
demonstrated links between violence and the illicit drug trade, particularly in urban settings…

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

Background and Aims Drug checking services provide people who use drugs with chemical
analysis results of their drug samples while simultaneously monitoring the unregulated drug …

Background Substance use-related stigma is a significant barrier to care among persons
who use drugs (PWUD). Less is known regarding how intersectional identities, like gender, …

There is a need for creative, public health-oriented solutions to the increasingly intractable
problems associated with the North American opioid epidemic. This epidemic is a …

Objectives Methamphetamine (MA) use among young people is of significant social, economic
and public health concern to affected communities and policy makers. While responses …

Background The North American opioid overdose crisis is driven in large part by the presence
of unknown psychoactive adulterants in the dynamic, unregulated drug supply. We herein …

Importance During the COVID-19 pandemic, modified guidance for opioid agonist therapy (OAT)
allowed prescribers to increase the number of take-home doses to promote treatment …

Objectives To review the metrics and findings of studies evaluating effects of drug
decriminalisation or legal regulation on drug availability, use or related health and social harms …

Objectives Illegal drug use continues to be a major threat to community health and safety.
We used international drug surveillance databases to assess the relationship between …