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This report analyzes trends in hospital stays and emergency room (ER) visits involving hallucinogen use in Canada over ten fiscal years (2014-15 to 2023-24). It also examines trends by age group, sex, type of harm, and province or territory. The rates of hallucinogen-related hospital stays and ER visits increased between 2014-15 and 2023-24, with the steepest increase coinciding with the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-21). Over the ten-year period, the rate of hospital stays rose by 39% and the rate of ER visits by 32%.

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Hospital stays and emergency room visits from April 2014 to March 2024_FR	PDF		https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/d12069ed-568d-4a08-a9fd-64c0d7664dc7/resource/692e3d2e-b75a-4149-9b13-21d056508e91/download/mefaits-lies-aux-hallucinogenes-au-canada_fr.pdf
Hospital stays and emergency room visits from April 2014 to March 2024_EN	PDF		https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/d12069ed-568d-4a08-a9fd-64c0d7664dc7/resource/b3437b73-f162-4ed1-b015-1379d47b6847/download/hallucinogen-related-harms-in-canada_en.pdf

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