Responding to the toxic drug crisis: Promising innovations, gaps, and calls to action

Affiliations

¹ Public Health and Social Policy, Faculty of Health, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. urbanosk@uvic.ca.
² Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
⁴ School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
⁵ Département de médecine sociale et préventive, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.

Editorial

Karen Urbanoski et al. Can J Public Health. 2025 Jun.

. 2025 Jun;116(3):335-339.

doi: 10.17269/s41997-025-01068-8.

¹ Public Health and Social Policy, Faculty of Health, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. urbanosk@uvic.ca.
² Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
⁴ School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
⁵ Département de médecine sociale et préventive, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.

No abstract available

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