by Mark Froats, Josee Malette | Mar 28, 2024 | BHP Corner, Featured, Prehospital and Transport Medicine
Opioid use disorder is a terrible disease that takes over people’s lives and leaves them overwhelmed, consumed by compulsions and cravings, and often alone. Over the past 10 years, opioid overdoses and deaths have continued to climb in Ontario, now surpassing...
by Thara Kumar, Robert Suttie, Shahbaz Syed | Sep 14, 2017 | Grand Round Summaries, Toxicology
Opioid and narcotic abuse has been a problem in Canada for some time, but nothing compares to the rapid sweep of opioid-related deaths and hospitalizations that have occurred over the past 2-3 years. While at one time, this problem was limited to a few pockets on the...
by EMOttawa | Jun 19, 2017 | Journal Club, landmark
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 4.5/5 D’Onofrio G, et al JAMA. 2015 Apr 28;313(16):1636-44. Full Article This single, urban center RCT including 329 patients showed that buprenorphine initiated in the ED was more likely to increase...
