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Objective
Indigenous Canadians experience a disproportionate burden of substance-related harms compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. The purpose of this literature review is to identify and describe the key characteristics of Indigenous harm reduction in Canada. This review aims to clarify key concepts in extant academic literature and identify and analyze persistent knowledge gaps. The findings will contribute to a growing body of literature essential for informing future best-practice Indigenous harm reduction models.
Findings/Key points
Indigenous harm reduction is a culturally integrative, decolonizing approach to harm reduction that holds immense promise for redressing inequities in the distribution and severity of substance-related harms experienced by Indigenous Canadians. Indigenous harm reduction characteristics should not be siloed, but rather broadly adopted across harm reduction initiatives in Canada to close the gap in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.
Design/methods
A single author scoping review was conducted using a search strategy that was developed to explore two online databases for relevant literature on Indigenous harm reduction methodologies in Canada.
