@article{ref1,
title="Low awareness of risk mitigation prescribing in response to dual crises of COVID-19 and overdose deaths among people who use unregulated drugs in Vancouver, Canada",
journal="Harm reduction journal",
year="2022",
author="Moshkforoush, Mana and Debeck, Kora and Brar, Rupinder and Fairbairn, Nadia and Cui, Zishan and Milloy, M.-j. and Buxton, Jane and Oldenburger, Tanis and McLellan, Will and Kendall, Perry and Sedgemore, Kali and Wilson, Dean and Kerr, Thomas and Hayashi, Kanna",
volume="19",
number="1",
pages="e50-e50",
abstract="When the novel coronavirus pandemic emerged in March 2020, many settings across Canada and the USA were already contending with an existing crisis of drug overdoses due to the toxic unregulated drug supply. In response, the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) released innovative risk mitigation prescribing (RMP) guidelines for medical professionals to prescribe pharmaceutical alternatives to unregulated drugs in an effort to support the self-isolation of people who use unregulated drugs (PWUD) in preventing both SARS-CoV-2 virus infection and overdoses. We sought to assess the level of awareness of RMP and identify factors associated with this awareness among PWUD in Vancouver, BC.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1477-7517",
doi="10.1186/s12954-022-00632-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00632-6"
}