‘Safer opioid distribution’ as an essential public health intervention for the opioid mortality crisis – Considerations, options and examples towards broad-based implementation

• Benedikt Fischer,
• Angelica Lee,
• Lenka Vojtila

Affiliations

Benedikt Fischer

Schools of Population Health and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), R. Sena Madureira, 1500, Vila Clementino, São Paulo, Brazil; Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health & Addiction, Simon Fraser University, Suite, 2400, 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Corresponding author. Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, 85 Park Rd, Grafton, Auckland, 1023, New Zealand.

Angelica Lee

Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health & Addiction, Simon Fraser University, Suite, 2400, 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lenka Vojtila

Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health & Addiction, Simon Fraser University, Suite, 2400, 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada