The changing role of substances: trends, characteristics of individuals and prior healthcare utilization among individuals with accidental substance-related toxicity deaths in Ontario Canada

• Shaleesa Ledlie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shaleesa Ledlie, Alice Holton

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Alice Holton ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shaleesa Ledlie, Alice Holton

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, RCSI Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland

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• Pamela Leece,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Bisola Hamzat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Joanna Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Gillian Kolla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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• Nikki Bozinoff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Rob Boyd,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ottawa Inner City Health Inc, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Mike Franklyn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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• Ashley Smoke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ontario Drug Policy Research Network Lived Experience Advisory Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Paul Newcombe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ontario Drug Policy Research Network Lived Experience Advisory Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Tara Gomes

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tara.gomes@unityhealth.to

  Affiliations Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1468-1965

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