Pain relief medication containing opioids, 2018.: CS82-625/2019001-8E-PDF

"Opioid use has emerged as a public health issue in Canada in recent years following a rise in opioid-related harms, such as increased hospitalizations and deaths linked to overdose. In 2018, the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) asked Canadians about their prescription and non-prescription use of pain relief medications containing opioids, such as codeine or morphine. Overall, 40.5% of Canadians aged 15 years and older (roughly 11.8 million people) reported they had used this type of pain relief product in their lifetime"--Page 3.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Statistics Canada, issuing body.
Title Pain relief medication containing opioids, 2018.
Series title Health fact sheets
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "Release date: June 25, 2019."
Caption title.
Issued also in HTML format.
Issued also in French under title: Médicaments antidouleur contenant des opioïdes, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references (page 9).
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2019.
©2019
Description 1 online resource (11 pages) : charts.
Catalogue number
  • CS82-625/2019001-8E-PDF
Subject terms Opioid abuse -- Canada -- Statistics.
Drug utilization -- Canada -- Statistics.
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