Do Drug Plans Matter? Effects of Drug Plan Eligibility on Drug Use Among the Elderly, Social Assistance Recipients and the General Population [PDF]
The 1984 Canada Health Act does not require that the provinces subsidize prescription drugs. Many provinces do, however, provide categorical coverage to the elderly, social assistance recipients and others, although the generosity of coverage is highly ...
Paul V. Grootendorst, Mitchell Levine
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Cardiometabolic Treatment Gap in Routine Psychiatric Care: A Cross‐Sectional Study of 1553 Patients
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background People with severe mental illness (SMI) have elevated cardiometabolic morbidity and mortality, with similar concerns increasingly reported in other psychiatric conditions including anxiety disorders and ADHD. Somatic conditions are often underdiagnosed and pharmacologically undermanaged in this population.
Vincent Achour +4 more
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Development and Acceptability of a Method to Investigate Prescription Drug Misuse in Daily Life: Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. [PDF]
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 2020 Papp LM +6 more
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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Understanding the differences in treatment response between subtypes of major depressive disorder (MDD) may help to prevent lengthy trial‐and‐error processes by identifying effective treatment options. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of atypical features of MDD (MDD‐A) on the response to lithium augmentation (LA)
Hannah Buchbauer +8 more
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Prevalence and minority-stress correlates of past 12-month prescription drug misuse in a national sample of transgender and gender nonbinary adults: Results from the U.S. Transgender Survey. [PDF]
Drug Alcohol Depend, 2021 Kidd JD, Goetz TG, Shea EA, Bockting WO.
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Addiction, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 745-755, April 2025.Abstract Aims The aim of this study was to identify longitudinal trajectories of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) use throughout 1 year following MOUD initiation and to examine the association of trajectory membership with HIV testing among people who inject drugs in India.
Allison M. McFall +8 more
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Shared correlates of prescription drug misuse and severe suicide ideation among clinical patients at risk for suicide. [PDF]
Suicide Life Threat Behav, 2020 Logan JE +4 more
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Lower risk guidelines for safer levels of cannabis use could help to reduce the health burden posed by cannabis use disorder (CUD). We aimed to estimate risk thresholds for CUD based on delta‐9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) consumption using standard THC units (1 unit = 5 mg THC).
Rachel Lees Thorne +9 more
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Outdated tools, underestimated harm: Modernizing cannabis surveillance in a post‐legalization era
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Canada's 2018 legalization of non‐medical cannabis was positioned as a public health initiative, intended to shift cannabis use from criminalization to regulation. Since then, cannabis access and consumption have grown significantly but the systems used to monitor cannabis‐related harms have not kept pace.
Anees Bahji
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Educational attainment and prescription drug misuse: The importance of push and pull factors for dropping out. [PDF]
J Crim Justice, 2020 Ford JA +4 more
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