ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2023
Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta.
Article in Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- "We've lost a lot of lives:" the impact of the closure of North America's busiest supervised consumption site on people who use substances and the organizations that work with them.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Responding to the toxic drug crisis: Promising innovations, gaps, and calls to action.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Article
- Analysing media portrayals of people with substance use disorder and addiction: A scoping review.Cultures of science · 2024Article
- Assessing support for substance use policies among the general public and policy influencers in two Canadian provinces.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2024Article
- Youth mental health care use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Canada: an interrupted time series, population-based study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioeconomic impacts of seven supervised consumption services in the province. The report is formatted to appear as an objective, scientifically credible evaluation of these services; however, it is fundamentally methodologically flawed, with a high risk of biases that critically undermine its authors' assessment of the scientific evidence. The report's findings have been used to justify decisions that jeopardize the health and well-being of people who use drugs both in Canada and internationally. Governments must ensure that future assessments of supervised consumption services and other public health measures to address drug poisoning deaths are scientifically sound and methodologically rigorous. Health policy must be based on the best available evidence, protect the right of structurally vulnerable populations to access healthcare, and not be contingent on favourable public opinion or prevailing political ideology.
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