Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada (Aug 2024)

A comparison of the characteristics of accidental substance-related acute toxicity deaths in Canada across life stages, 2016–2017

  • Grace Yi-Shin Chang,
  • Jingru Helen Ha,
  • Jacqueline Burt,
  • Fiona Kouyoumdjian,
  • Katherine McKenzie,
  • Shane Randell,
  • Amanda VanSteelandt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.44.7/8.04
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 44, no. 7/8
pp. 331 – 337

Abstract

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AbstractThe acute toxicity (sometimes called “overdose” or “poisoning”) crisis has affected Canadians from all walks of life and of all ages—children, youth, adults including older adults have died.