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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Ministère/Organisme | Statistics Canada, issuing body. |
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Titre | Pain relief medication containing opioids, 2018. |
Titre de la série | Health fact sheets |
Type de publication | Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal |
Langue | [Anglais] |
Autres langues publiées | [Français] |
Format | Électronique |
Document électronique | |
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). |
Information sur la publication | [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2019. ©2019 |
Description | 1 online resource (11 pages) : charts. |
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Descripteurs | Opioid abuse -- Canada -- Statistics. Drug utilization -- Canada -- Statistics. |