Overdose incidents in federal custody, 2017/2018 / Laura McKendy, Stephanie Biro & Leslie Anne Keown, Magda Miron & Sebastian Baglole.: PS83-3/19-02E-PDF

"This report builds on a five-year analysis of overdose incidents in federal custody (McKendy, Biro & Keown, 2019), providing an overview of fatal and non-fatal overdose incidents that occurred in federal institutions in the 2017/18 fiscal year period. Information is presented regarding the prevalence and nature of overdose incidents, the circumstances under which overdose incidents occur, patterns in the nature of staff and medical responses, and the characteristics of offenders involved in overdose incidents"--Executive summary, page iii.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Correctional Service Canada. Research Branch, issuing body.
Title Overdose incidents in federal custody, 2017/2018 / Laura McKendy, Stephanie Biro & Leslie Anne Keown, Magda Miron & Sebastian Baglole.
Series title Research report ; no. SR-19-02
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Later edition Overdose incidents in federal custody, 2018/2019 /
Earlier edition Overdose incidents in federal custody, 2012/2013 - 2016/2017 /
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Incidents de surdose chez les délinquants sous responsabilité fédérale en 2017-2018.
Issued by: Research Branch.
Issued also in HTML format.
Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information Ottawa, Ontario : Correctional Service Canada = Service correctionnel Canada, December 2019.
Author / Contributor McKendy, Laura, author.
Description 1 online resource (vi, 30 pages) : colour graphs.
Catalogue number
  • PS83-3/19-02E-PDF
Subject terms Prisoners -- Drug use -- Canada -- Statistics.
Drugs -- Overdose -- Canada -- Statistics.
Narcotics -- Overdose -- Canada -- Statistics.
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