| Idioma original | English |
|---|---|
| Páginas (desde-hasta) | S4-S7 |
| Publicación | Canadian Journal of Addiction |
| Volumen | 13 |
| N.º | 2 |
| DOI | |
| Estado | Published - jun. 1 2022 |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:The current issue will present one of 12 programmatic EHT research projects funded by Health Canada through CRISM. It became apparent in the mid-2000s that the opioid overdose and health crisis was evolving rapidly and was beginning to impact youth and young adults. Epidemiological data until that point suggested that opioid use was primarily a problem for older drug dependent adults, but by 2018 evidence showed that youth in Canada had the greatest increases in hospitalizations due to opioid use. It was also simultaneously becoming evident that the opioid overdose and health crisis was manifesting itself differently among youth populations across Canada and that diverse youth populations have been impacted differently by this crisis, with important regional differences emerging across the country. Our project focused on at-risk youth and newer users of opioids, with youth defined as those between the ages of 15 and 25 years. Each site in our working group focused on a different youth population, also including guardians and caregivers of youth who had experienced opioid-related harms.
Funding Information:
The editorial team of the Emerging Health Threat ‘At-risk Youth and Newer Users’ research working group are thrilled to be the first, in the history of the Canadian Journal of Addiction, to publish a supplemental issue in this journal. With the opioid overdose and health crisis rapidly growing and evolving in North America, this special issue provides an opportunity to present a series of studies involving investigators in this field from across the country. Our working group involves diverse expertise in disciplines including critical public health, sociology, psychiatry, psychology, and anthropology. This research was made possible through a unique research funding opportunity granted by Health Canada's Emerging Health Threat (EHT) Division to the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) network to rapidly study and understand the evolving opioid overdose and health crisis in our country and to develop recommendations for prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and policy.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
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