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Our new study published in the Canadian Journal of Addiction found plateauing rates of new starts of opioid analgesics in British Columbia in
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In this 2009 Insight article, Gemma Turner, Cobh Community Based Drugs Worker, provides a brief history of the project while Jano Klimas gives a sense
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Some things in academia can become so much fabric of your life that you stop counting years. The conference of the College on Problems of Drug
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