good reads from our friends.

Good reads from our data team.

  1. William Rioux, Dylan Viste, Stephanie Robertson, Linzi Williamson, Anne Miller, Evan Poncelet, S. Monty Ghosh. Virtual/Mobile Overdose Response in Canada: A Social Return on Investment Analysis. Value in Health. Oct 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2024.09.014

  2. Adrian Teare, William Rioux, Nathan Rider, Stephanie Jones, Pamela Taplay, S. Monty Ghosh, Are virtual harm reduction interventions right for everyone?: A qualitative study of the appropriateness of overdose response hotlines and applications for different subgroups of people who use substances, Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, Volume 168, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2024.209567.

  3. Byles H, Sedaghat N, Rider N, Rioux W, Loverock A, Seo B, Dhanoa A, Orr T, Dunnewold N, Tjosvold L, Ghosh SM. Barriers to calling emergency services amongst people who use substances in the event of overdose: A scoping review. Int J Drug Policy. 2024 Aug 27;132:104559. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104559. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39197374.

  4. Seo, B., Rioux, W., Teare, A. Rider N, Jones S, Taplay P, Ghosh, SM. Perspectives of key interest groups regarding supervised Consumption sites (SCS) and novel virtual harm reduction services/overdose response hotlines and applications: a qualitative Canadian study. Harm Reduct J 21, 141 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-01053-3

  5. Rioux, W., Taplay, P., Morris-Miller, L. et al. Implementing Canada’s first national virtual phone based overdose prevention service: lessons learned from creating the National Overdose Response Service (NORS). Harm Reduct J 21, 102 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-01017-7  

  6. Lee, Amanda BHSc, MBA, MD; Jafri, Farah MBBS, MD; Viste, Dylan BHSc; Seo, Boogyung BSc; Skiber, Darci MA, CHE; Medwid, Marguerite BN; Ghosh, S. Monty MSc, MPH, MD, FRCPC. Perceptions of Overdose Response Hotlines and Phone Application Services Among Women and Gender-diverse Individuals Who Use Drugs in Canada: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Addiction Medicine ():10.1097/ADM.0000000000001325, May 24, 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000001325. Perceptions of Overdose Response Hotlines and Phone Applicat... : Journal of Addiction Medicine (lww.com) 

  7. Victor Mocanu, Dylan Viste, William Rioux, S. Monty Ghosh, Accessibility gaps of physical supervised consumption sites in Canada motivating the use of overdose response technology/phone based virtual overdose response services: a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 34, 2024, 100770, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2024.100770.

  8. Seo, B., Rioux, W., Rider, N. et al. Bridging the Gap in Harm Reduction Using Mobile Overdose Response Services (MORS) in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study. J Urban Health (2024). https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11524-024-00846-y?sharing_token=4KVeBntcfR35lsBZyzfte_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY5l7bfSz-B-0ioDwZWpACTYdDk8Yg5PSegkYcSYlu1N-guJFRjMdTUXkUPE5-KoC7Pbw4FAxzQ1rViTskmt358hqFViLCoZh2i0uGTVEiwBEjqbhz_ml9Kd5KdDaFv0RMw%3D

  9. Sedaghat N, Seo B, Rider N, Rioux W, Ghosh SM. Perspectives of Canadian Healthcare and Harm Reduction Workers on Mobile Overdose Response Services: A Qualitative Study. Substance Use & Addiction Journal. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/29767342241237169

  10. Viste, D., Rioux, W., Rider, N. et al. Characteristics and Risk of Adverse Mental Health Events Amongst Users of the National Overdose Response Service (NORS) Telephone Hotline. Int J Ment Health Addiction (2024). chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/baab4bbb-6a35-4f8f-8b7e-314cd69374c8?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nonoa_20240325&utm_content=10.1007/s11469-024-01285-1

  11. Rioux, W., Teare, A., Rider, N. et al. Preference for hotline versus mobile application/countdown-based mobile overdose response services: a qualitative study. Harm Reduct J 21, 31 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-00944-9

  12. Seo, B., Rider, N., Rioux, W. et al. Understanding the barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining Mobile Overdose Response Services from the perspective of Canadian key interest groups: a qualitative study. Harm Reduct J 21, 28 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-00946-7 

  13. Rioux, W., Kilby, K., Jones, S. et al. Perspectives of healthcare workers on the integration of overdose detection technologies in acute care settings. Addict Sci Clin Pract 19, 4 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-023-00433-7

  14. Nathan Rider, Fahad Safi, Tyler Marshall, Stephanie Jones, Boogyung Seo, Dylan Viste, Pamela E. Taplay, William Rioux & S. Monty Ghosh (2023) Investigating uses of peer-operated Virtual Overdose Monitoring Services (VOMS) beyond overdose response: a qualitative study, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 49:6, 809-817, DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2023.2271642

  15. Rioux W, Enns B, Ghosh SM. Virtual overdose monitoring services/mobile overdose response services: estimated number of potentially averted drug poisoning fatality events by various telephone and digital-based overdose prevention/harm reduction services in North America. Front Public Health. 2023 Oct 19;11:1242795. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1242795. PMID: 37927877; PMCID: PMC10622778.

  16. Rioux, W., Enns, B., Jackson, J. et al. A cost benefit analysis of a virtual overdose monitoring service/mobile overdose response service: the national overdose response service. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 18, 57 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-023-00565-8 LINK: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13011-023-00565-8#citeas

  17. Viste, D., Rioux, W., Cristall, N. et al. Association of drug overdoses and user characteristics of Canada’s national mobile/virtual overdose response hotline: the National Overdose Response Service (NORS). BMC Public Health 23, 1869 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16751-z  LINK: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-16751-z

  18. Rioux, William & Marshall, Tyler & Ghosh, SM. (2023). Virtual overdose monitoring services and overdose prevention technologies: Opportunities, limitations, and future directions. The International Journal on drug policy. 119. 104121. 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104121.   LINK: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395923001688

  19. Alexandra Loverock, Tyler Marshall, Dylan Viste, Fahad Safi, Will Rioux, Navid Sedaghat, Megan Kennedy, S. Monty Ghosh, Electronic harm reduction interventions for drug overdose monitoring and prevention: A scoping review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, June 30, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110878.  LINK: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037687162301116X

  20. Marshall, T., Viste, D., Jones, S. Kim J, Lee A, Jafri F, Krieg O, Ghosh SM. Beliefs, attitudes and experiences of virtual overdose monitoring services from the perspectives of people who use substances in Canada: a qualitative study. Harm Reduct J 20, 80 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00807-9  LINK: https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-023-00807-9

  21.  Safi F, Rioux W, Rider N, Fornssler B, Jones S, Ghosh SM. Feasibility and acceptability of inserts promoting virtual overdose monitoring services (VOMS) in naloxone kits: a qualitative study. Harm Reduct J. 2023 May 8;20(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s12954-023-00792-z. PMID: 37158926; PMCID: PMC10165834.  LINK: https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-023-00792-z

  22. Jessica P., Rebecca Morris-Miller, Brandy Myette, S. Monty Ghosh. Receiving and providing virtual harm reduction and peer-based support. CMAJ Apr 2023, 195 (15) E548-E550; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.221188   LINK: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/195/15/E548

  23. George Matskiv, Tyler Marshall, Oona Krieg, Dylan Viste, S. Monty Ghosh. Virtual overdose monitoring services: a novel adjunctive harm reduction approach for addressing the overdose crisis. CMAJ Nov 2022, 194 (46) E1568-E1572; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.220579 LINK: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/194/46/E1568’

  24.  Ritchie, K., Ghosh, S.M. Determining the feasibility for an overdose prevention line to support substance users who use alone. Harm Reduct J 19, 92 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00670-0  LINK: https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-022-00670-0