ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2018
Gendered violence and overdose prevention sites: a rapid ethnographic study during an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada.
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- Let the girls know, "you can come here": qualitative experiences with harm reduction and health services among women who use drugs in Chicago.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Use of clinic- and community-based overdose prevention services by sex workers who use drugs: findings from a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2017-2024).Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
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- Complex trauma and perceived barriers to treatment among people accessing a supervised injecting facility.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
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- Syringe Service Program Utilization, Behavioral, and Experiential Factors Associated with Greater Naloxone Protection in a Longitudinal Cohort of People Who Use Illicit Opioids in New York City.Research square · 2025Article
- Gender differences regarding interest in opioid agonist treatment with hydromorphone: a cross-sectional study of syringe service program participants.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Barriers and facilitators to injectable opioid agonist treatment engagement within a structural vulnerability context: a qualitative study of patient experiences in Vancouver, Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Spatial epidemiology of nonfatal overdose in a community-based cohort of marginalized women in Vancouver, British Columbia (2014-2022).Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsNorth America's overdose epidemic is increasingly driven by fentanyl and fentanyl-adulterated drugs. Supervised consumption sites, including low-threshold models (termed overdose prevention sites; OPS), are now being debated in the United States and implemented in Canada. Despite evidence that gendered and racialized violence shape access to harm reduction among women who use drugs (WWUD), this has not been examined in relation to OPS and amid the overdose epidemic. This study explores how overlapping epidemics of overdose and gendered and racialized violence in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, one of North America's overdose epicenters, impacts how marginalized WWUD experience OPS.
designQualitative analysis using rapid ethnographic fieldwork. Data collection included 185 hours of naturalistic observation and in-depth interviews; data were analyzed thematically using NVivo.
settingVancouver, Canada.
participantsThirty-five WWUD recruited from three OPS. MEASUREMENTS: Participants' experiences of OPS and the public health emergency.
findingsThe rapid onset and severity of intoxication associated with the use of fentanyl-adulterated drugs in less regulated drug use settings not only amplified WWUD's vulnerability to overdose death but also violence. Participants characterized OPS as safer spaces to consume drugs in contrast to less regulated settings, and accommodation of assisted injections and injecting partnerships was critical to increasing OPS access among WWUD. Peer-administered injections disrupted gendered power relations to allow women increased control over their drug use; however, participants indicated that OPS were also gendered and racialized spaces that jeopardized some women's access.
conclusionAlthough women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada appear to feel that overdose prevention sites address forms of everyday violence made worse by the overdose epidemic, these sites remain 'masculine spaces' that can jeopardize women's access.
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