Low awareness of risk mitigation prescribing in response to dual crises of COVID-19 and overdose deaths among people who use unregulated drugs in Vancouver, Canada

• Main Authors: Mana Moshkforoush (Author), Kora DeBeck (Author), Rupinder Brar (Author), Nadia Fairbairn (Author), Zishan Cui (Author), M.-J. Milloy (Author), Jane Buxton (Author), Tanis Oldenburger (Author), Will McLellan (Author), Perry Kendall (Author), Kali Sedgemore (Author), Dean Wilson (Author), Thomas Kerr (Author), Kanna Hayashi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background When the novel coronavirus pandemic emerged in March 2020, many settings across Canada and the USA were already contending with an existing crisis of drug overdoses due to the toxic unregulated drug supply. In response, the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) released inno...