ArticleHarm reduction journal2021
The drug war must end: The right to life, liberty and security of the person during the COVID-19 pandemic for people who use drugs.
Article in Harm reduction journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- The power of people who use drugs as mass media influencers in changing public opinion during the global overdose epidemic.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
- A major stakeholder in the lobbying efforts: the role of people who use drugs in the past and the current opioid crisis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- People who use drugs and the right to health.Harm reduction journal · 2024Review
- Prevalence, correlates, and quality-of-life outcomes of major or persistent pain among women living with HIV in Metro Vancouver, Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- "The Drug Sellers Were Better Organized than the Government": A Qualitative Study of Participants' Views of Drug Markets during COVID-19 and Other Big Events.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Impacts of COVID-19 at the intersection of substance use disorder treatment and criminal justice systems: findings from three states.Health & justice · 2022Article
- The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media.Health & justice · 2022Article
- Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Since the start of the opioid epidemic in 2016, the Downtown Eastside community of Vancouver, Canada, has lost many pioneering leaders, activists and visionaries to the war on drugs. The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS), and the British Columbia Association People on Opiate Maintenance (BCAPOM) are truly concerned about the increasing overdose deaths that have continued since 2016 and have been exacerbated by the novel coronavirus (SARS-COVID-19) despite many unique and timely harm reduction announcements by the British Columbia (B.C.) government. Some of these unique interventions in B.C., although in many cases only mere announcements with limited scope, are based on the philosophy of safe supply to illegal street drugs. Despite all the efforts during the pandemic, overdose deaths have spiked by over 100% compared to the previous year. Therefore, we urge the Canadian federal government, specifically the Honorable Patty Hajdu, the federal Minister of Health, to decriminalize simple possession immediately by granting exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The Canadian federal government has a moral obligation under Sect. 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to protect the basic human rights of marginalized Canadians.
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