Tara Gomes

Reconsidering the Alberta study of the closure of the Red Deer supervised consumption site

Supervised consumption sites (SCS) are interventions supported by decades of evidence and yet remain subject to considerable politicization. Recently, researchers from Alberta, Canada published a study in the journal Addiction that sought to assess the impacts of the closure of a...

Trends in opioid containing drug seizures described as pills between 2020 and 2024 in Canada

People who use drugs may access prescription opioids from unregulated markets to avoid fentanyl and lower toxicity risk, though concerns regarding counterfeit pills have emerged. To better understand the composition of pills that may be circulating in the unregulated drug supply,...