Trends in toxicological findings in unintentional opioid or stimulant toxicity deaths in Québec, Canada, 2012–2021: Has Québec entered a new era of drug‐related deaths?

Drug and Alcohol Review, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 43(6), С. 1613 - 1624

Опубликована: Авг. 6, 2024

We aimed to describe rates and toxicological findings of unintentional opioid stimulant toxicity deaths, 2012-2021.

Язык: Английский

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Problematising the emergence of outbreak science in the governance of global health: making time for slow dis-ease

Critical Public Health, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 33(5), С. 838 - 847

Опубликована: Июль 25, 2023

There is growing investment in the development of new methods, networks, and infrastructures knowledge coordination to prepare for disease threats come. 'Outbreak science' an emerging field that proposes improve epidemic preparedness precautionary response. But what are effects framing governing 'outbreaks' this anticipatory mode? What ways knowing doing response does outbreak science open up foreclose through its promise fast, actionable information situations uncertainty? We consider how 'outbreak' made governable evidencing, with profound, unevenly distributed, social material repercussions. focus on one problematisation intrinsic science, is, need speed. Drawing work Science Technology Studies (STS) pollutants slow burn environmental harms, we argue constituting as a problem be managed immediacy speed obscures long-enduring temporalities complex ecological relations disease. suggest 'slow dis-ease' conjunction 'perpetual care' alternative modes problematising outbreak. practical difference possible by making time dis-ease, currently lost rapid, anticipation short-term event science.

Язык: Английский

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Pills and the damage done: the opioid epidemic as man-made crisis

Frontiers in Public Health, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11

Опубликована: Янв. 12, 2024

The prescription opioid epidemic has slowly evolved over the past quarter century with increasingly detrimental consequences for public health. Man-made crises are often unforeseen and characterized by a situation without natural causes where - because of human intent, error, negligence, or failure manmade systems level needs in population exceeds available resources to counter problem. This paper presents as man-made crisis explores health impact manufacturers other industries producing commodities addictive potential shared vulnerability among countries. We examine this concept within framework commercial determinants address three key aspects health: (1) Cross-industry mechanisms, (2) policy inertia, (3) role industry science. Within cross-industry we explore parallels between unhealthy commodity terms marketing, corporate use misinformation, diversionary tactics. Next, how inertia dominated slow response crisis. Lastly, discuss results from clinical trials used marketing strategy drugs. origins may be traced innovations drug development promise improved pain management. However, through multiple factors, including fraudulent pharmaceutical resulting represents multi-system regulation exploited greed.

Язык: Английский

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Exhausting care: On the collateral realities of caring in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

Social Science & Medicine, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 343, С. 116617 - 116617

Опубликована: Янв. 22, 2024

We explore care as a site of multiplicity and tension. Working with the qualitative interview accounts nineteen health workers in Colombia, we trace narrative ‘exhausting care’ early days Covid-19 pandemic. Accounts relate exhausting to working without break response extraordinary demand, heightened contagion concern, pressures caring face anticipated death, efforts carry on constraint. bring together work John Law (2010, 2011) ‘collateral realities’ Lauren Berlant’s (2011) thesis ‘cruel optimism’ practice which promise good can also become materialised harm, given structural conditions. Through reflexive ‘carrying on’ being ‘worn down’ by care, runs through worker accounts, draw attention collateral realities personal political, at once endurance extraction. argue that relates extraordinariness pandemic resides ordinariness, slower violence, everyday. The cruel optimism is relation labour reproduces harmful situation.

Язык: Английский

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The Opioid Overdose Epidemic and Response

Elsevier eBooks, Год журнала: 2023, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Thinking beyond ‘outbreak’: The contentious politics of the science of early warning and overdose epidemic

International Journal of Drug Policy, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 118, С. 104083 - 104083

Опубликована: Июнь 17, 2023

Язык: Английский

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