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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.
TitlePain relief medication containing opioids, 2018.
Series title
  • Health fact sheets
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
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
Description1 online resource (11 pages) : charts.
Catalogue number
  • CS82-625/2019001-8E-PDF
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