Jürgen Rehm
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
1242 Papers
6.6K Citations
Jürgen Rehm is an academic researcher from Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 126, co-authored 1132 publications. Previous affiliations of Jürgen Rehm include University of Manitoba & Münster University of Applied Sciences.
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Papers
Impact of fentanyl use on initiation and discontinuation of methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone among people with prescription-type opioid use disorder: secondary analysis of a Canadian treatment trial.
M. Eugenia Socías,Evan Wood,Bernard Le Foll,Ron Lim,JinCheol Choi,Wing Yin Mok,Julie Bruneau,Jürgen Rehm,T. Cameron Wild,Nikki Bozinoff,Ahmed N. Hassan,Didier Jutras-Aswad +11 more
TL;DR: Both buprenorphine/naloxone and methadone may be appropriate treatment options for people with prescription-type opioid use disorder regardless of fentanyl exposure, and other characteristics of fentanyl-exposed individuals appear to be driving the association with poorer treatment outcomes.
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Is There a Relationship Between Alcohol Quality and Health
TL;DR: This article shows that using the term 'alcohol quality' with varying definitions and underlying concepts may lead to misunderstandings, if not to clear misinformation when 'lower quality' is interpreted as 'more toxic' especially in the case of substitution of commercial beverages to unrecorded alcohol.
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Characteristics and predictors of health problems from use among high-frequency cannabis users in a Canadian university student population
Benedikt Fischer,Meghan Dawe,Fraser McGuire,Paul A. Shuper,Wayne Jones,Katherine Rudzinski,Jürgen Rehm +6 more
TL;DR: The authors' sample was characterized by several use-related risks and problems, which may result in long-term burden of disease, and university environment may offer suitable settings for targeted interventions.
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Cannabis use, legalization and youth health
Benedikt Fischer,Jürgen Rehm +1 more
TL;DR: In a recent editorial in CMAJ, Dr. Kelsall states that cannabis use harms the developing brain and brings other key health risks to youth, and thus “cannabis should not be used by young people.”
Local Drug-Crime Dynamics in a Canadian Multi-Site Sample of Untreated Opioid Users
TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-site study analyzed self-reported involvement in property crime, drug dealing, and sex work across five Canadian cities, among a sample of 677 illicit opioid and other drug users outside of treatment.
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