ArticleThe International journal on drug policy2020
COVID-19 - Enacting a 'new normal' for people who use drugs.
Article in The International journal on drug policy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
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- Global Health Commodities Supply Chain in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, Impacts, and Prospects: A Systematic Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Review
- Community outbreak of COVID-19 among people who use drugs attending a harm reduction centre in Barcelona, Spain.Harm reduction journal · 2023Observational
- "It's just a perfect storm": Exploring the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on overdose risk in British Columbia from the perspectives of people who use substances.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of the Air-Filled Technique to Reduce the Dead Space in Syringes and Needles during ChAdox1-n CoV Vaccine Administration.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Problemas ligados ao álcool em centros de emergência (PLACE)-People experiencing homelessness with alcohol-related problems in Lisbon's emergency shelters during the COVID-19 pandemic: a description and analysis of a harm reduction intervention.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Negotiating an Illicit Economy in the Time of COVID-19: Selling and Buying Dilemmas in the Lives of People Who Use Drugs in Scotland.Contemporary drug problems · 2022Article
- Day-to-day impact of COVID-19 and other factors associated with risk of nonfatal overdose among people who use unregulated drugs in five cities in the United States and Canada.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- From drug prohibition to regulation: a public health imperative.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Article
- Short Take: Collecting Data from a Vulnerable Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Field methods · 2022Article
- Evaluation of an emergency safe supply drugs and managed alcohol program in COVID-19 isolation hotel shelters for people experiencing homelessness.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Self-reported impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among people who use drugs: a rapid assessment study in Montreal, Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- Characterizing safer supply prescribing of immediate release hydromorphone for individuals with opioid use disorder across Ontario, Canada.The International journal on drug policy · 2022Article
- Preventing Overdose Using Information and Data from the Environment (PROVIDENT): protocol for a randomized, population-based, community intervention trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- Examining the impact of the first wave of COVID-19 and associated control measures on interventions to prevent blood-borne viruses among people who inject drugs in Scotland: an interrupted time series study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Potential Influences of the Darknet on Illicit Drug Diffusion.Current addiction reports · 2022Review
- How is "solidarity" understood in discussions about contact tracing apps? An overview.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Exploring the Potential of Implementing Managed Alcohol Programmes to Reduce Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Transmission, and Wider Harms, for People Experiencing Alcohol Dependency and Homelessness in Scotland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Identifying the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on service access for people who use drugs (PWUD): A national qualitative study.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis has magnified existing social, economic and political inequities. People who use drugs are particularly vulnerable due to criminalisation and stigma and often experience underlying health conditions, higher rates of poverty, unemployment and homelessness, as well as a lack of access to vital resources - putting them at greater risk of infection. On the other hand, COVID-19 presents an opportunity to confront the mistakes of the past and re-negotiate a new social contract. The International Network of People who use Drugs (INPUD) believe that this crisis must be an occasion to rethink the function of punishment, to reform the system and to work towards ending the war on drugs. This commentary presents a set of recommendations to UN agencies, governments, donor agencies, academics, researchers and civil society, challenging these actors to work alongside people who use drugs to enact a new reality based on solidarity and cooperation, protection of health, restoration of rights and dignity and most importantly to mobilise to win the peace.
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