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Overview

Evan Wood is a researcher affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their work primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Toxicology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and General Health Professions.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Canadian guideline for the clinical management of high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder" (2023), published in Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • "Flexible Buprenorphine/Naloxone Model of Care for Reducing Opioid Use in Individuals With Prescription-Type Opioid Use Disorder: An Open-Label, Pragmatic, Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial" (2022), published in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Retention in opioid agonist treatment: a rapid review and meta-analysis comparing observational studies and randomized controlled trials" (2021), published in Systematic Reviews
  • "Treatment of stimulant use disorder: A systematic review of reviews" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Detecting fentanyl using point-of-care drug checking technologies: A validation study" (2020), published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Evan Wood include:

  • Kanna Hayashi
  • M-J Milloy
  • Thomas Kerr
  • Lianping Ti
  • M. Eugenia Socías

Publishing venues that frequently feature their work are:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Addiction
  • Substance Abuse

Best Publications

  • Rates of Disease Progression by Baseline CD4 Cell Count and Viral Load After Initiating Triple-Drug Therapy

    Robert S. Hogg;Benita Yip;Keith J. Chan;Evan Wood

  • Association of highly active antiretroviral therapy coverage, population viral load, and yearly new HIV diagnoses in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based study

    Julio S.G. Montaner;Julio S.G. Montaner;Julio S.G. Montaner;Viviane D. Lima;Viviane D. Lima;Rolando Barrios;Benita Yip

  • The case for expanding access to highly active antiretroviral therapy to curb the growth of the HIV epidemic

    Julio S. G. Montaner;Robert Hogg;Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr

  • Reduction in overdose mortality after the opening of North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility: a retrospective population-based study.

    Brandon D. L. Marshall;M.-J. Milloy;Evan Wood;Julio S. G. Montaner

  • Effect of medication adherence on survival of HIV-infected adults who start highly active antiretroviral therapy when the CD4+ cell count is 0.200 to 0.350 x 10(9) cells/L.

    Evan Wood;Robert S. Hogg;Benita Yip;P. Richard Harrigan

  • Intensive injection cocaine use as the primary risk factor in the Vancouver HIV-1 epidemic.

    Mark W Tyndall;Sue Currie;Patricia Spittal;Kathy Li

  • Expansion of HAART Coverage Is Associated with Sustained Decreases in HIV/AIDS Morbidity, Mortality and HIV Transmission: The “HIV Treatment as Prevention” Experience in a Canadian Setting

    Julio S.G. Montaner;Viviane D. Lima;P. Richard Harrigan;Lillian Lourenço

  • Management of opioid use disorders: a national clinical practice guideline

    Julie Bruneau;Keith Ahamad;Marie-Ève Goyer;Ginette Poulin

  • Longitudinal community plasma HIV-1 RNA concentrations and incidence of HIV-1 among injecting drug users: prospective cohort study

    Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Brandon D L Marshall;Kathy Li

  • The public health and social impacts of drug market enforcement: A review of the evidence

    Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Will Small;Evan Wood;Evan Wood

  • Effect of drug law enforcement on drug market violence: a systematic review.

    Dan Werb;Greg Rowell;Gordon Guyatt;Thomas Kerr

  • Safer injection facility use and syringe sharing in injection drug users

    Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Mark Tyndall;Mark Tyndall;Kathy Li;Kathy Li;Julio Montaner;Julio Montaner

  • Changes in public order after the opening of a medically supervised safer injecting facility for illicit injection drug users

    Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Will Small;Kathy Li

  • Continued improvement in survival among HIV-infected individuals with newer forms of highly active antiretroviral therapy.

    Viviane D. Lima;Robert S. Hogg;P. Richard Harrigan;David Moore

  • Hospitals as a 'risk environment': an ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who inject drugs.

    Ryan McNeil;Will Small;Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr

  • Predictors of non-fatal overdose among a cohort of polysubstance-using injection drug users.

    Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Nadia Fairbairn;Mark Tyndall;Mark Tyndall;David Marsh;David Marsh

  • Evaluating methamphetamine use and risks of injection initiation among street youth: the ARYS study

    Evan Wood;Evan Wood;Jo-Anne Stoltz;Julio S G Montaner;Julio S G Montaner;Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr

  • Risk factors for elevated HIV incidence rates among female injection drug users in Vancouver

    Patricia M. Spittal;Kevin J.P. Craib;Evan Wood;Nancy Laliberté

  • Unsafe injection practices in a cohort of injection drug users in Vancouver: Could safer injecting rooms help?

    Evan Wood;Mark W. Tyndall;Patricia M. Spittal;Kathy Li

  • Risk factors for elevated HIV incidence among Aboriginal injection drug users in Vancouver

    Kevin J.P. Craib;Patricia M. Spittal;Evan Wood;Nancy Laliberte

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Kerr
Thomas Kerr University of British Columbia
Julio S. G. Montaner
Julio S. G. Montaner University of British Columbia
Robert S. Hogg
Robert S. Hogg Simon Fraser University
Mark W. Tyndall
Mark W. Tyndall University of British Columbia
Brandon D. L. Marshall
Brandon D. L. Marshall Brown University
Will Small
Will Small Simon Fraser University
Martin T. Schechter
Martin T. Schechter University of British Columbia
Jane A. Buxton
Jane A. Buxton University of British Columbia
Michael V. O'Shaughnessy
Michael V. O'Shaughnessy University of California, San Francisco
Benita Yip
Benita Yip University of British Columbia

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