Trends of incident stimulant use disorder diagnoses before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia (2013-2024): a population-based study
Roshni Desai, Kevin Hu, Bin Zhao, Shania Au, Xuan Chen, Mallory Flynn, Mike Irvine, Hind Sbihi, Brooke Kinniburgh, Kali-Olt Sedgemore, Kirsten Marchand, Sofia Bartlett, Naveed Janjua, Alexis Crabtree, Heather Palis · 2026
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New diagnoses of stimulant use disorder across British Columbia are charted through the pandemic in a 2026 population study by Roshni Desai and co-authors. Drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine keep turning up in drug poisoning deaths, yet the trend in fresh cases had not been charted.
The team used the province's March 2020 emergency declaration as a dividing line. Records from 2013 to 2024 covered over thirty-eight thousand people newly diagnosed. Time-series models that respect seasonal swings estimated how rates bent at that point, while profiles compared who was diagnosed before and after. The study gives health planners a baseline for a disorder often counted only at the morgue.
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| CREATOR | Roshni Desai, Kevin Hu, Bin Zhao, Shania Au, Xuan Chen, Mallory Flynn, Mike Irvine, Hind Sbihi, Brooke Kinniburgh, Kali-Olt Sedgemore, Kirsten Marchand, Sofia Bartlett, Naveed Janjua, Alexis Crabtree, Heather Palis |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |