Report
by
Khorasheh, Triti et al
Release Date
2021
Geography
Canada
Language of Resource
English
Full Text Available
Yes
Open Access / OK to Reproduce
No
Peer Reviewed
No
Objective
This report summarizes the impact of overdoses and overdose-related loss on harm reduction workers and strategies to address their support needs.
Findings/Key points
Ensuring harm reduction workers have adequate benefit coverage, access to external, paid forms of emotional support from therapists trained in complex trauma, and opportunities to collectively process grief and loss is urgently needed.
Design/methods
Part of the Impacts of Overdose Study
Keywords
Overdose
Wrap-around services
Social services
Workplace