Measuring opioid-related mortality in Canada during COVID-19 pandemic


What The Study Did:

Researchers

quantified the added burden of fatal


opioid overdoses occurring in Ontario, Canada, during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.


Authors:


Tara Gomes, Ph.D., of the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St.


Michael’s Hospital in Toronto,

is the corresponding author.


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