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William Rioux

Excluded Student Hourly, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
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Excluded Student Hourly, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
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wjrioux@ualberta.ca

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Defining terminology and outcome measures for evaluating overdose response technology: An international Delphi study

William Rioux, Dylan Viste, Navid Sedaghat, Nathan Rider, Joseph Tay Wee Teck, Melissa Perri, David G. Schwartz, Kim Ritchie, Giuseppe Carrà, Stephanie Carreiro, Oona Kreig, Gabriela Marcu, Nicholas Bartlett, Joseph Arthur, Joanne Cogdell, Mike Brown, Tyler Marshall, S. Monty Ghosh

Drug and Alcohol Review. 2025 July; 10.1111/dar.14055

Predictors of overdose response hotline use for mental health and fatal overdose prevention

Will Rioux, Dylan Viste, Taylor Orr, Nathan Rider, S. Monty Ghosh

Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2025 June; 10.17269/s41997-024-00981-8

Illnesses Associated With Increased Length of Stay for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalisations

S. Monty Ghosh, Khokan C. Sikdar, Adetola Koleade, Jordan Ross, William Rioux, Eddy S. Lang, Geoff Messier, Robert Tanguay, Stephen E. Congly, Stephanie Van den Berg, Karen L. Tang

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2025 February; 10.1111/jep.14236

Are virtual harm reduction interventions right for everyone?: A qualitative study of the appropriateness of overdose response hotlines and applications for different subgroups of people who use substances

Adrian Teare, William Rioux, Nathan Rider, Stephanie Jones, Pamela Taplay, S. Monty Ghosh

Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment. 2024 November; 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209567

Barriers to calling emergency services amongst people who use substances in the event of overdose: A scoping review

Hannah Byles, Navid Sedaghat, Nathan Rider, William Rioux, Alexandra Loverock, Boogyung Seo, Avnit Dhanoa, Taylor Orr, Nicole Dunnewold, Lisa Tjosvold, S․Monty Ghosh

International Journal of Drug Policy. 2024 October; 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104559

Perspectives of key interest groups regarding supervised Consumption sites (SCS) and novel virtual harm reduction services / overdose response hotlines and applications: a qualitative Canadian study

Boogyung Seo, William Rioux, Adrian Teare, Nathan Rider, Stephanie Jones, Pamela Taplay, S. Monty Ghosh

Harm Reduction Journal. 2024 July; 10.1186/s12954-024-01053-3

Accessibility gaps of physical supervised consumption sites in Canada motivating the use of overdose response technology/phone based virtual overdose response services: a retrospective cohort study

Victor Mocanu, Dylan Viste, William Rioux, S. Monty Ghosh

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 2024 June; 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100770

Implementing Canada’s first national virtual phone based overdose prevention service: lessons learned from creating the National Overdose Response Service (NORS)

William Rioux, Pamela Taplay, Lisa Morris-Miller, S. Monty Ghosh

Harm Reduction Journal. 2024 May; 10.1186/s12954-024-01017-7

Characteristics and Risk of Adverse Mental Health Events Amongst Users of the National Overdose Response Service (NORS) Telephone Hotline

Dylan Viste, Will Rioux, Nathan Rider, Taylor Orr, Nora Cristall, Dallas Seitz, S. Monty Ghosh

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 2024 March; 10.1007/s11469-024-01285-1

Perspectives of Canadian Healthcare and Harm Reduction Workers on Mobile Overdose Response Services: A Qualitative Study

Navid Sedaghat, Boogyung Seo, Nathan Rider, William Rioux, S. Monty Ghosh

Substance Use & Addiction Journal. 2024 March; 10.1177/29767342241237169

Bridging the Gap in Harm Reduction Using Mobile Overdose Response Services (MORS) in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study

Boogyung Seo, William Rioux, Nathan Rider, Adrian Teare, Stephanie Jones, Pamela Taplay, S. Monty Ghosh

Journal of Urban Health. 2024 March; 10.1007/s11524-024-00846-y

Preference for hotline versus mobile application/countdown-based mobile overdose response services: a qualitative study

William Rioux, Adrian Teare, Nathan Rider, Stephanie Jones, S. Monty Ghosh

Harm Reduction Journal. 2024 February; 10.1186/s12954-024-00944-9

Understanding the barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining Mobile Overdose Response Services from the perspective of Canadian key interest groups: a qualitative study

Boogyung Seo, Nathan Rider, William Rioux, Adrian Teare, Stephanie Jones, Pamela Taplay, S. Monty Ghosh

Harm Reduction Journal. 2024 February; 10.1186/s12954-024-00946-7

Perspectives of healthcare workers on the integration of overdose detection technologies in acute care settings

William Rioux, Kyle Kilby, Stephanie Jones, Pamela Joshi, Stephanie Vandenberg, S. Monty Ghosh

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 2024 January; 10.1186/s13722-023-00433-7

Investigating uses of peer-operated Virtual Overdose Monitoring Services (VOMS) beyond overdose response: a qualitative study

Nathan Rider, Fahad Safi, Tyler Marshall, Stephanie Jones, Boogyung Seo, Dylan Viste, Pamela E. Taplay, William Rioux, S. Monty Ghosh

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 2023 November; 10.1080/00952990.2023.2271642

Virtual overdose monitoring services/mobile overdose response services: estimated number of potentially averted drug poisoning fatality events by various telephone and digital-based overdose prevention/harm reduction services in North America

William Rioux, Benjamin Enns, S. Monty Ghosh

Frontiers in Public Health. 2023 October; 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1242795

A cost benefit analysis of a virtual overdose monitoring service/mobile overdose response service: the national overdose response service

William Rioux, Benjamin Enns, Jennifer Jackson, Hena Quereshi, Mike Irvine, S. Monty Ghosh

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 2023 October; 10.1186/s13011-023-00565-8

Association of drug overdoses and user characteristics of Canada’s national mobile/virtual overdose response hotline: the National Overdose Response Service (NORS)

Dylan Viste, William Rioux, Nora Cristall, Taylor Orr, Pamela Taplay, Lisa Morris-Miller, S. Monty Ghosh

BMC Public Health. 2023 September; 10.1186/s12889-023-16751-z

Virtual overdose monitoring services and overdose prevention technologies: Opportunities, limitations, and future directions

William Rioux, Tyler Marshall, S. Monty Ghosh

International Journal of Drug Policy. 2023 September; 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104121

Electronic harm reduction interventions for drug overdose monitoring and prevention: A scoping review

Alexandra Loverock, Tyler Marshall, Dylan Viste, Fahad Safi, Will Rioux, Navid Sedaghat, Megan Kennedy, S. Monty Ghosh

Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2023 June; 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110878

Feasibility and acceptability of inserts promoting virtual overdose monitoring services (VOMS) in naloxone kits: a qualitative study

Fahad Safi, William Rioux, Nathan Rider, Barbara Fornssler, Stephanie Jones, S. Monty Ghosh

Harm Reduction Journal. 2023 May; 10.1186/s12954-023-00792-z

Association of Mental Health Services Access and Reincarceration Among Adults Released From Prison in British Columbia, Canada

Heather Palis, Kevin Hu, William Rioux, Mo Korchinski, Pam Young, Leigh Greiner, Tonia Nicholls, Amanda Slaunwhite

JAMA Network Open. 2022 December; 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.47146

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