Martin St-Jean, Xinzhe Dong, Hiwot Tafessu, David Moore, William G Honer, Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, Paul Sereda, Robert S Hogg, Thomas L Patterson, Kate Salters, Rolando Barrios, Julio S G Montaner, Viviane D Lima
BACKGROUND: A remarkable reduction in AIDS-related mortality has been achieved through the widespread use of triple combination antiretroviral therapy, considerably increasing the life expectancy of people living with HIV (PLWH). However, these survival gains are now at risk in North America due to an unprecedented public health emergency: the deadly drug overdose epidemic. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of unintentional death in British Columbia (BC), Canada and the United States due to synthetic opioids (e...
March 24, 2021: International Journal on Drug Policy