Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The context of illicit drug overdose deaths in British Columbia, 2006 | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research The context of illicit drug overdose deaths in British Columbia 2006 Jane A Buxton 1 2 Trevor Skutezky1 Andrew W Tu1 Bilal Waheed3 Alex Wallace3 and Sunny Mak1 Address 1British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Vancouver British Columbia Canada 2University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health Vancouver British Columbia Canada and 3British Columbia Coroner s Service Burnaby British Columbia Canada Email Jane A Buxton - Trevor Skutezky - Andrew W Tu - Bilal Waheed - Alex Wallace - Sunny Mak - Corresponding author Open Access Published 29 May 2009 Received 12 March 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009 6 9 doi 1477-7517-6-9 Accepted 29 May 2009 This article is available from http content 6 1 9 2009 Buxton et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Illicit drug overdose deaths IDD relate to individual drug dose and context of use including use with other drugs and alcohol. IDD peaked in British Columbia BC in 1998 with 417 deaths and continues to be a public health problem. The objective of this study was to examine IDD in 2006 in BC by place of residence injury and death decedents age and sex and substances identified. Methods IDD data was obtained through the BC Coroners Office and entered into SPSS version 14 . Fisher s exact and Pearson s X2 were used for categorical data Mann-Whitney U-test for continuous variables. Rates were calculated using 2006 population estimates. Results We .
