ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2020
A Community Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Case Study in Protecting the Health and Human Rights of People Who Use Drugs.
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- Volatile drug use and overdose during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.The International journal on drug policy · 2024Article
- Changes in harm reduction service providers professional quality of life during dual public health emergencies in Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Patient experiences of methadone treatment changes during the first wave of COVID-19: a national community-driven survey.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- A comparison of the COVID-19 response for urban underserved patients experiencing healthcare transitions in three Canadian cities.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2022Article
- Sustainable development goals under threat? Multidimensional impact of COVID-19 on our planet and society outweigh short term global pollution reduction.Sustainable cities and society · 2022Article
- The Methadone Manifesto: Treatment Experiences and Policy Recommendations From Methadone Patient Activists.American journal of public health · 2022Article
- An Ethnographic Assessment of COVID-19‒Related Changes to the Risk Environment for People Who Use Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.American journal of public health · 2022Article
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- Managed alcohol: one community's innovative response to risk management during COVID-19.Harm reduction journal · 2021Article
- Changes in methadone program practices and fatal methadone overdose rates in Connecticut during COVID-19.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Article
- Hand hygiene during the COVID-19 pandemic among people experiencing homelessness-Atlanta, Georgia, 2020.Journal of community psychology · 2021Article
- Essential work, precarious labour: The need for safer and equitable harm reduction work in the era of COVID-19.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Article
- Addictions in the COVID-19 era: Current evidence, future perspectives a comprehensive review.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2021Review
- Harm reduction in the time of COVID-19: Case study of homelessness and drug use in Dublin, Ireland.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Article
- Opioid Overdose-Related Emergency Department Visits and Accidental Deaths during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
- Rapid evidence review of harm reduction interventions and messaging for people who inject drugs during pandemic events: implications for the ongoing COVID-19 response.Harm reduction journal · 2020Review
- COVID-19 and People Who Use Drugs - A Commentary.Health behavior and policy review · 2020Article
- COVID-19 and the health of people who use drugs: What is and what could be?The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
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Effective responses to a global pandemic require local action. In the face of a pandemic or similar emergencies, communities of people who use drugs face risks that result from their ongoing drug use, reduced ability to secure treatment for drug use and correlated maladies, lack of access to preventive hygiene, and the realities of homelessness, street-level policing, and criminal justice involvement. Herein, we document the efforts of a coalition of people who use drugs, advocates, service providers, and academics to implement solutions to reduce these risks at a municipal and state level focusing on New Haven and the State of Connecticut. This coalition identified the communities at risk: active users needing access to harm reduction services, persons in treatment needing access to their medications, the homeless and marginally housed needing improved hygiene, people engaged in sex work, and the incarcerated needing release from custody. The section describing each of the risks demonstrates how the coalition acted preemptively at early stages of the pandemic, ahead of official initiatives, to develop ameliorative risk reduction solutions. Outcomes discussed include instances in which obstacles were overcome or still remain.
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