TY - JOUR
KW - American Native Continental Ancestry Group
KW - Counseling
KW - Cultural Competency
KW - Female
KW - Health Services, Indigenous/standards
KW - Hospitalization
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Narcotic Antagonists/therapeutic use
KW - Ontario
KW - Opiate Substitution Treatment/methods
KW - Opioid-Related Disorders/ethnology/rehabilitation/therapy
KW - Patient Acceptance of Health Care/ethnology/psychology/statistics & numerical data
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Rural Health Services
KW - Substance Withdrawal Syndrome/ethnology
KW - Urban Population
AU - N. Kiepek
AU - L. Hancock
AU - D. Toppozini
AU - H. Cromarty
AU - A. Morgan
AU - L. Kelly
A1 - 
AB - CONTEXT: The abuse of oxycodone in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, has escalated at alarming rates raising concerns that opiate use has reached epidemic proportions, particularly among the First Nations communities. The authors were involved in establishing Ontario's first rural inpatient medical withdrawal unit to serve patients seeking abstinence. ISSUES: The development of the medical withdrawal support services (MWSS) required creative and adaptive strategies to respond to the geographical, cultural and institutional circumstances. LESSONS LEARNED: Key factors to support program efficacy and successful outcomes for clients during the inaugural eight months of operation are interprofessional and collaborative approaches with a cultural awareness.Key words: addiction, Canada, First Nation, medical withdrawal.
BT - Rural and remote health
C5 - Opioids & Substance Use; Healthcare Disparities
CY - Australia
JF - Rural and remote health
N2 - CONTEXT: The abuse of oxycodone in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, has escalated at alarming rates raising concerns that opiate use has reached epidemic proportions, particularly among the First Nations communities. The authors were involved in establishing Ontario's first rural inpatient medical withdrawal unit to serve patients seeking abstinence. ISSUES: The development of the medical withdrawal support services (MWSS) required creative and adaptive strategies to respond to the geographical, cultural and institutional circumstances. LESSONS LEARNED: Key factors to support program efficacy and successful outcomes for clients during the inaugural eight months of operation are interprofessional and collaborative approaches with a cultural awareness.Key words: addiction, Canada, First Nation, medical withdrawal.
PP - Australia
PY - 2012
SN - 1445-6354; 1445-6354
SP - 2193
T1 - Facilitating medical withdrawal from opiates in rural Ontario
T2 - Rural and remote health
TI - Facilitating medical withdrawal from opiates in rural Ontario
U1 - Opioids & Substance Use; Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 23094953
VL - 12
VO - 1445-6354; 1445-6354
Y1 - 2012
ER -