Catastrophic increases in opioid overdose deaths across Canada require a broad response -- tackling housing, food and income insecurity as well as the contaminated drug supply.
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Research shows that Indigenous women are at greatest risk of injury within Canada. Income, education and housing inequities play a role. So does systemic racism and post-colonial trauma.
Depression may lead pregnant women to engage in suicidal behaviour. But the socioeconomic contexts pregnant women are in may also contribute to their suicide risk.
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Senior Lecturer in the Psychology Department, Stellenbosch University
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Director of the Perinatal Mental Health Project; Senior researcher, University of Cape Town
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Graduate Researcher, University of Waterloo
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Project co-ordinator: Perinatal Mental Health Project, researcher, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor Emerita Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
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Research Scientist, BC Centre on Substance Use and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
