ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2025
Reimagining subjectivities in place: Necropolitical logics of safer supply and housing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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- Gender differences in the association between housing status and violence among people who report exposure to benzodiazepines.The International journal on drug policy · 2026Article
- Haunted houses: Using photovoice to understand emotional geographies in single room occupancy housing.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
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Canada's overdose crisis has prompted the implementation of a range of safer supply programs, which provide prescription alternatives to illicit drugs to reduce overdose deaths and related harms. However, the effectiveness and transformative potential of these programs are shaped by the broader socio-spatial contexts in which they are implemented, particularly in marginalized housing environments like single room occupancy (SRO) buildings in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Through qualitative interviews with 26 people receiving safer supply undertaken from October 2022 to July 2023 in Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside-one of the epicentres of Canada's overdose crisis and the location of most of the country's safer supply programming-this paper examines what subjectivities safer supply makes possible for people who use drugs within the context of SRO housing. Drawing on two participant narratives, we explore how broader social-structural forces frame how safer supply can act when implemented in housing environments that engender subjectivities anchored in, for example, precarious health, social suffering, and normalized dehumanization. Drawing on the concept of necropolitics, we examine how experiences of place shape unfolding subjectivities among people who use drugs living in SROs who are receiving safer supply. We consider how the normalization and legitimization of social suffering as a condition of living in SRO housing is emblematic of how people who use drugs are made to inhabit necrospace. In doing so, we situate safer supply-and its life-sustaining potential-within the context of a life-constraining space.
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