Salimah Z. Shariff

Oct 16, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Richard Booth |Salimah Z. Shariff |Brooke Carter |Stephen Hwang

INTRODUCTION The opioid toxicity epidemic in Canada has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Canadians during the past two decades [1]. From 2017 to 2021 alone, the national rate of apparent opioid-related overdose deaths nearly doubled from 10.7 to 20.7 deaths per 100 000 population [2]. One segment of the population disproportionally impacted by the opioid epidemic are people experiencing homelessness (PEH) [3-6].