“2.5 g, I could do that before noon”: a qualitative study on people who use drugs’ perspectives on the impacts of British Columbia’s decriminalization of illegal drugs threshold limit

Table 2 Study participants’ substance use characteristics

^a‘Polysubstance’ use included reference to using two or more categories of substances, primarily opioids and stimulants, as well as using speedballs (a combination of stimulants and opioids). ‘Stimulants’ primarily included uppers such as cocaine, crack-cocaine and amphetamines including methamphetamine/crystal meth; ‘Opioids’ primarily included downers including both illegal and pharmaceutical opioids such as hydromorphone, heroin and fentanyl, but excluded references to OAT such as buprenorphine with naloxone or methadone

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