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- Title: Changes in the Rates of Alcohol- and Drug-Related Hospital Separations for Canadian Provinces: 1996 to 2005 (QUANTITATIVE Research) (Clinical Report)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 300 KB
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In this paper, we have assembled data from fiscal years (FY) 1996 to 2005 (i.e., April 01, 1996-March 31, 2006) for each province on hospital separations for amphetamines, alcohol, cocaine, cannabis and opioids. To our knowledge, documentation of these rates has not been systematically reported for Canadian provinces. These data are useful for developing a comprehensive assessment of the national and provincial trends of alcohol- and drug-related harms. The hospital discharge data provide a more objective means of assessing health harms related to substance use compared to population surveys. Population surveys are commonly thought to result in under-reporting of harms because of poor recall, higher non-response rates of substance and problematic users, and social desirability effects due to the stigma of substance use or its illegal nature. (1,2) A 2005 Canadian population survey has indicated the following percentage of the population reporting use of various substances in the past year: alcohol (79.3%), cannabis (14.1%), cocaine (1.9%) and LSD/speed/heroin (1.3%). (3) A question of interest is how these patterns translate into health-related harms through hospital separations. In Canada, substance-related morbidity data are reported by the Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU), (4) but at this time, only national data for fiscal years 2001 and 2002 have been published and trend data by province is not available.