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ArticleHealth promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice2018

Commentary - Broadening our understanding of Canada's epidemics of pharmaceutical and contaminated street drug opioid-related overdoses.

Robert Strang

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Article in Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The HPCDP Journal: celebrating a decade of impact.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2025
    Article
  2. A Diagram of the Social-Ecological Conditions of Opioid Misuse and Overdose.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
    Review
  3. Alcohol and other drugs in suicide in Canada: opportunities to support prevention through enhanced monitoring.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Robert StrangNova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Analgesics, OpioidDrug OverdoseDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsIllicit DrugsOpioid-Related DisordersAge FactorsCanadaCause of DeathDrug ContaminationEpidemicsEpidemiological MonitoringGovernment RegulationHumansPreventive Health ServicesSex FactorsAnalgesics, OpioidIllicit Drugs

Identifiers

PMID30226723
PMCPMC6169702

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.