Characterizing trends and patterns in benzodiazepine-related toxicity deaths in Ontario: A descriptive cross-sectional study

• Tonya Campbell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Epidemiology Research Unit, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-208X

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• Shaleesa Ledlie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Pamela Leece,

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

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

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• Joanna Yang,

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

  Affiliation ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Bisola Hamzat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Gillian Kolla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada

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• Nikki Bozinoff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9512-7407

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• Rob Boyd,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ottawa Inner City Health Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada

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• Mike Franklyn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Ashley Smoke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Dana Shearer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8008-3974

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• Tara Gomes

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

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

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

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