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Michael-John Milloy

ResearcherMedicineUniversity of British Columbia

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Michael-John Milloy

Researcher

Medicine

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2024.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (5 CIHR), most recently in 2022.
Supervised 4 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

Harm Reduction People Who Use Drugs Addiction Drug Use Hiv/Aids Cannabis Access Cannabis Use Drug-Related Harm

Latest papers

Characterizing the Use of Healthcare Access Supports Among People Who Use Drugs in Vancouver, Canada, 2017 to 2020: A Cohort Study.
Substance use & addiction journal · 2024
Cannabidiol as a Harm Reduction Strategy for People Who Use Drugs: A Rapid Review.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2023
Factors associated with self-reported avoidance of harm reduction services during the COVID-19 pandemic by people who use drugs in five cities in the United States and Canada.
Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022

All 13 publications

Latest funding

Substance Use, Work and Well-Being in Trades and Construction
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,870,424
Advancing co-produced research priorities to respond to the overdose public health emergency in British Columbia
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$150,000
Evaluating the impacts of overdose prevention interventions among people who use opioids in Vancouver, BC amidst the evolving unregulated drug supply
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,648,576

All 41 grants and awards

13 publications.

Characterizing the Use of Healthcare Access Supports Among People Who Use Drugs in Vancouver, Canada, 2017 to 2020: A Cohort Study.

Hayashi K, Rabu G, Cui Z, Klaire S, Homayra F, Milloy MJ, Nosyk B

Substance use & addiction journal2024

DOI: 10.1177/29767342241249870 PMID: 38804580

Cannabidiol as a Harm Reduction Strategy for People Who Use Drugs: A Rapid Review.

Lo LA, MacCallum CA, Nanson K, Koehn M, Mitchell I, Milloy MJ, Walsh Z, Fehr F

Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2023

DOI: 10.1177/07067437231183525 PMID: 37376827

Factors associated with self-reported avoidance of harm reduction services during the COVID-19 pandemic by people who use drugs in five cities in the United States and Canada.

Feder KA, Choi J, Schluth CG, Hayashi K, DeBeck K, Milloy MJ, Kirk GD, Mehta SH, Kipke M, Moore RD, Baum MK, Shoptaw S, Gorbach PM, Mustanski B, Javanbakht M, Siminski S, Genberg BL

Drug and alcohol dependence2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109544 PMID: 35779987

Frequent Cannabis Use Is Negatively Associated with Frequency of Injection Drug Use Among People Who Inject Drugs in a Canadian Setting.

Reddon H, DeBeck K, Socias ME, Lake S, Dong H, Hayashi K, Milloy MJ

Cannabis and cannabinoid research2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1089/can.2019.0104 PMID: 33998862

Incarceration history and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Stone J, Fraser H, Lim AG, Walker JG, Ward Z, MacGregor L, Trickey A, Abbott S, Strathdee SA, Abramovitz D, Maher L, Iversen J, Bruneau J, Zang G, Garfein RS, Yen YF, Azim T, Mehta SH, Milloy MJ, Hellard ME, Sacks-Davis R, Dietze PM, Aitken C, Aladashvili M, Tsertsvadze T, Mravčík V, Alary M, Roy E, Smyrnov P, Sazonova Y, Young AM, Havens JR, Hope VD, Desai M, Heinsbroek E, Hutchinson SJ, Palmateer NE, McAuley A, Platt L, Martin NK, Altice FL, Hickman M, Vickerman P

The Lancet. Infectious diseases2018

DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(18)30469-9 PMID: 30385157

Incidence and predictors of mental health disorder diagnoses among people who inject drugs in a Canadian setting.

Reddon H, Pettes T, Wood E, Nosova E, Milloy MJ, Kerr T, Hayashi K

Drug and alcohol review2018

DOI: 10.1111/dar.12631 PMID: 29168263

Cannabis use is associated with lower rates of initiation of injection drug use among street-involved youth: A longitudinal analysis.

Reddon H, DeBeck K, Socias ME, Dong H, Wood E, Montaner J, Kerr T, Milloy MJ

Drug and alcohol review2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/dar.12667 PMID: 29430806

Reducing rates of preventable HIV/AIDS-associated mortality among people living with HIV who inject drugs.

Parashar S, Collins AB, Montaner JS, Hogg RS, Milloy MJ

Current opinion in HIV and AIDS2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/coh.0000000000000297 PMID: 27254749

Factors associated with optimal pharmacy refill adherence for antiretroviral medications and plasma HIV RNA non-detectability among HIV-positive crack cocaine users: a prospective cohort study.

Hayashi K, Wood E, Kerr T, Dong H, Nguyen P, Puskas CM, Guillemi S, Montaner JS, Milloy MJ

BMC infectious diseases2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1749-y PMID: 27568002

Declining trends in exposures to harmful policing among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada.

Landsberg A, Kerr T, Milloy MJ, Dong H, Nguyen P, Wood E, Hayashi K

Journal of the International AIDS Society2016

DOI: 10.7448/ias.19.4.20729 PMID: 27435707

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Michael-John Milloy

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Characterizing the Use of Healthcare Access Supports Among People Who Use Drugs in Vancouver, Canada, 2017 to 2020: A Cohort Study.

Cannabidiol as a Harm Reduction Strategy for People Who Use Drugs: A Rapid Review.

Factors associated with self-reported avoidance of harm reduction services during the COVID-19 pandemic by people who use drugs in five cities in the United States and Canada.

Frequent Cannabis Use Is Negatively Associated with Frequency of Injection Drug Use Among People Who Inject Drugs in a Canadian Setting.

Incarceration history and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Incidence and predictors of mental health disorder diagnoses among people who inject drugs in a Canadian setting.

Cannabis use is associated with lower rates of initiation of injection drug use among street-involved youth: A longitudinal analysis.

Reducing rates of preventable HIV/AIDS-associated mortality among people living with HIV who inject drugs.

Factors associated with optimal pharmacy refill adherence for antiretroviral medications and plasma HIV RNA non-detectability among HIV-positive crack cocaine users: a prospective cohort study.

Declining trends in exposures to harmful policing among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada.

Substance Use, Work and Well-Being in Trades and Construction

Advancing co-produced research priorities to respond to the overdose public health emergency in British Columbia

Evaluating the impacts of overdose prevention interventions among people who use opioids in Vancouver, BC amidst the evolving unregulated drug supply

Investigating the overdose risk of prescription gabapentin among people who use unregulated opioids

Responding to the Toxic Drug Supply Crisis: Evaluating the Uptake and Impacts of Prescribed Safer Supply on Street-Involved Youth and Young Adults in Vancouver

Evaluating and addressing health impacts of drug prohibition and public use legislation among people who use drugs in Vancouver, BC

Responding to the toxic drug crisis: Examining novel substance use interventions for young people who use drugs in British Columbia

Low threshold economic engagement and health equity in inner-city populations: Assessing intersections of economic engagement, work, and health using The ASSET Study

Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse: BC Node

Longitudinally evaluating the health impacts of cannabis regulation among two sentinel populations with high rates of cannabis use and drug-related harms

Frequent collaborators

Kanna Hayashi

Evan Wood

Thomas Kerr

Kanna Hayashi

Hudson Reddon

Julio Montaner

Kora DeBeck

Surita Parashar

Zach Walsh

Surita Parashar

Bohdan Nosyk

Julie Bruneau

Michel Alary

Bohdan Nosyk