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Burden of opioid toxicity death in the fentanyl-dominant era for people who experience incarceration in Ontario, Canada, 2015-2020: a whole population retrospective cohort study.

Amanda ButlerRuth CroxfordClaire BodkinHanaya AkbariAhmed M BayoumiSusan J BondyDale GuenterKatherine E McLeodTara GomesTharsan KanagalingamLori A KieferAaron Michael OrkinAkwasi Owusu-BempahLeonora RegenstreifFiona Kouyoumdjian
Published in: BMJ open (2023)
The risk of opioid toxicity death is many times higher for people who experience incarceration compared with others in Ontario. Risk is markedly elevated in the week after release, and women who experience incarceration have a substantially higher SMR than men who experience incarceration. Initiatives to prevent deaths should consider programmes and policies in correctional facilities to address high risk on release.
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