Thomas D Brothers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5409139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas D Brothers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas D |
| FAMILY NAME | Brothers |
| SIGNATURE | BROTHERS T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5570-5556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cocaine Use, Unhealthy Alcohol Use, and PainInterference Among People with HIV
Pain is prevalent among people with HIV (PWH), and many PWH who experience pain also use substances (illicit drug and/or unhealthy alcohol use). While cocaine use and cocaine and alcohol co-use are prevalent in this population, their effects on pain in PWH are unknown. This study aims to investigate the association of cocaine use and co-use of cocaine and alcohol with pain interference among PWH. We completed a secondary analysis of the Boston Al…
A scoping review and concept analysis to inform Canada’s safe(r) opioid supply research agenda
Safe(r) supply encompasses prescribed opioid alternatives interventions (safer supply) and non-medicalized (safe supply) approaches with shared antecedents but distinct attributes and consequences. This study highlights the need to better define and standardize the parameters of safer supply approaches, including population, dosing, and intended objectives, to enable a more precise assessment of their potential benefits and risks. This nuanced un…
Improving hospital substance use care from the ground up and from the outside in
Despite a lack of institutional policies or buy-in from senior leadership, harm reduction measures can be implemented in hospitals from the bottom-up and the outside-in-by healthcare providers organizing, leveraging existing community resources, and listening to people who use drugs. Clinicians at other hospitals could model our collaborative approach to improve care and push their health systems towards institutional change
Characteristics of supervised injection site clients and factors associated with requiring overdose intervention, Montreal, Canada, 2018–2022
Across four Montréal SIS, site visits with an overdose requiring intervention were associated with transgender identity, younger age, stable housing, intending to inject fentanyl, injecting less frequently than daily, injecting for either more than five years or less than a year, single site attendance, and injecting most often in a public place. Montréal SIS serve a diverse clientele who inject drugs, with differing risks of onsite overdose
Effect of incarceration and opioid agonist treatment transitions on risk of hospitalisation with injection drug use-associated bacterial infections: A self-controlled case series in New South Wales, A…
Risk of injecting-related bacterial infections varies greatly within-individuals over time. Risk is raised immediately after prison release, and around initiation and discontinuation of OAT. Social contextual factors likely contribute to excess risks at transitions in incarceration and OAT exposure
Uptake of slow‐release oral morphine as opioid agonist treatment among hospitalised patients with opioid use disorder
Changes in supervised consumption site use and emergency interventions in Montréal, Canada in the first twelve months of the Covid-19 pandemic: An interrupted time series study
Covid just kind of opened a can of whoop-ass”: The rapid growth of safer supply prescribing during the pandemic documented through an environmental scan of addiction and harm reduction services in Can…
Data confirmed the capacity for rapid scale-up of flexible, community-based safer supply prescribing during dual public health emergencies. Geographical, client demographic, and funding gaps highlight the need to target barriers to implementation, service delivery and sustainability
It is time for us all to embrace person-centred language for people in prison and people who were formerly in prison
Addressing the Syndemic of HIV, Hepatitis C, Overdose, and Covid-19 Among People Who Use Drugs: The Potential Roles for Decriminalization and Safe Supply
People who use drugs (PWUD) face concurrent public health emergencies from overdoses, HIV, hepatitis C, and COVID-19, leading to an unprecedented syndemic. Responses to PWUD that go beyond treatment--such as decriminalization and providing a safe supply of pharmaceutical-grade drugs--could reduce impacts of this syndemic. Solutions already implemented for COVID-19, such as emergency safe-supply prescribing and providing housing to people experien…
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson. An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals
Ideology and Aurality in the Vernacular Traditions of African-American Music (CA. 1890-1950)
Ideology and Aurality in the Vernacular Traditions of African-American Music (CA. 1890-1950)
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson. An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals
Addressing the Syndemic of HIV, Hepatitis C, Overdose, and Covid-19 Among People Who Use Drugs: The Potential Roles for Decriminalization and Safe Supply
People who use drugs (PWUD) face concurrent public health emergencies from overdoses, HIV, hepatitis C, and COVID-19, leading to an unprecedented syndemic. Responses to PWUD that go beyond treatment--such as decriminalization and providing a safe supply of pharmaceutical-grade drugs--could reduce impacts of this syndemic. Solutions already implemented for COVID-19, such as emergency safe-supply prescribing and providing housing to people experien…
Uptake of slow‐release oral morphine as opioid agonist treatment among hospitalised patients with opioid use disorder
Changes in supervised consumption site use and emergency interventions in Montréal, Canada in the first twelve months of the Covid-19 pandemic: An interrupted time series study
Covid just kind of opened a can of whoop-ass”: The rapid growth of safer supply prescribing during the pandemic documented through an environmental scan of addiction and harm reduction services in Can…
Data confirmed the capacity for rapid scale-up of flexible, community-based safer supply prescribing during dual public health emergencies. Geographical, client demographic, and funding gaps highlight the need to target barriers to implementation, service delivery and sustainability
It is time for us all to embrace person-centred language for people in prison and people who were formerly in prison
Effect of incarceration and opioid agonist treatment transitions on risk of hospitalisation with injection drug use-associated bacterial infections: A self-controlled case series in New South Wales, A…
Risk of injecting-related bacterial infections varies greatly within-individuals over time. Risk is raised immediately after prison release, and around initiation and discontinuation of OAT. Social contextual factors likely contribute to excess risks at transitions in incarceration and OAT exposure
Characteristics of supervised injection site clients and factors associated with requiring overdose intervention, Montreal, Canada, 2018–2022
Across four Montréal SIS, site visits with an overdose requiring intervention were associated with transgender identity, younger age, stable housing, intending to inject fentanyl, injecting less frequently than daily, injecting for either more than five years or less than a year, single site attendance, and injecting most often in a public place. Montréal SIS serve a diverse clientele who inject drugs, with differing risks of onsite overdose
Cocaine Use, Unhealthy Alcohol Use, and PainInterference Among People with HIV
Pain is prevalent among people with HIV (PWH), and many PWH who experience pain also use substances (illicit drug and/or unhealthy alcohol use). While cocaine use and cocaine and alcohol co-use are prevalent in this population, their effects on pain in PWH are unknown. This study aims to investigate the association of cocaine use and co-use of cocaine and alcohol with pain interference among PWH. We completed a secondary analysis of the Boston Al…
A scoping review and concept analysis to inform Canada’s safe(r) opioid supply research agenda
Safe(r) supply encompasses prescribed opioid alternatives interventions (safer supply) and non-medicalized (safe supply) approaches with shared antecedents but distinct attributes and consequences. This study highlights the need to better define and standardize the parameters of safer supply approaches, including population, dosing, and intended objectives, to enable a more precise assessment of their potential benefits and risks. This nuanced un…
Improving hospital substance use care from the ground up and from the outside in
Despite a lack of institutional policies or buy-in from senior leadership, harm reduction measures can be implemented in hospitals from the bottom-up and the outside-in-by healthcare providers organizing, leveraging existing community resources, and listening to people who use drugs. Clinicians at other hospitals could model our collaborative approach to improve care and push their health systems towards institutional change
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (8 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Opioid (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Emergency Medicine (3 works) · Harm reduction (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works)