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This report looks at prescribed drug spending and public drug program spending in 2018 in all provinces, Yukon and 1 federal program administered by the First Nations and Inuit ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨ Branch.

Explore the latest data on prescriptions, and on emergency department visits and hospitalizations due to opioids.

This report highlights trends in opioid prescribing and discusses findings within the context of initiatives and guidelines aimed at reducing harms associated with prescription opioid use.

This infographic highlights the rates of hospitalizations for opioid poisonings in Canadian cities, with a focus on Vancouver. 

2 front-line workers share their perspectives on Canada's opioid crisis in conjunction with some of the key findings in CIHI's new report Opioid-Related Harms in Canada. 

Find out more about opioid poisoning and our work on opioids.

This report looks at public drug program spending in 2017 in all provinces, Yukon and 1 federal program administered by the First Nations and Inuit ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨ Branch.

This report highlights comparable estimates of opioid use and harms in Canada and Australia from ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨and the Australian Institute of ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨ and Welfare (AIHW).

Read this evaluation of NSIR-RT, which was pilot-tested by 28 cancer treatment centres. The report focuses on patient safety objectives, client support and the data quality of the RT incident pilot data.

This analysis examines Canadian trends in opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing between 2012 and 2017. It builds on the report Pan-Canadian Trends in the Prescribing of Opioids, 2012 to 2016.