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Palis, Heather
Xavier, Chloé
Dobrer, Sabina
Desai, Roshni
Sedgemore, Kali-olt
Scow, Marnie
Lock, Kurt
Gan, Wenqi
Slaunwhite, Amanda
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Article History
Received: 9 July 2022
Accepted: 31 October 2022
First Online: 15 November 2022
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: The BC Provincial Overdose Cohort (BC-ODC) was assembled under section 52(2) of British Columbia’s Public Health Act by BC’s Public Health Officer in response to the overdose public health emergency in 2016. ThePublic Health Act provides the health minister, public health officials, regional health authorities, local governments, and others with important tools such as up-to-date information gathering abilities, and measures necessary to respond to public health emergencies. The Public Health Act allows for research into health issues to be conducted, and provides legislation for the BC Centre for Disease Control to conduct research on overdose using the BC-ODC. As such, institutional ethical approval for this research is not required.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare.
