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Resources
Archived webinar | 2024
Advocacy, Decriminalization/legalization, Equity, Legal system/law enforcement
Brief | 2024
2SLGBTQI+, Advocacy, Crime, Decriminalization/legalization, Equity, Sex/Gender , Legal system/law enforcement, Policy/Regulatory
Report | 2024
Barriers and enablers, Drug checking, Illegal drugs, Harm reduction, Social services
Has reliance on abstinence-based treatment outcomes failed to capture the full continuum of treatment response to buprenorphine plus medical counseling (BUP+MC) for o
Original research | 2024
About PWUD, Illegal drugs, Mental health, Opioids, Return to use, Substitution/OAT, Treatment/recovery
The global spread of harm reduction services continues to stall – a continuation of a trend first observed in 2012.
Report | 2024
2SLGBTQI+, Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Equity, Harm reduction, Illegal drugs, Injecting drugs, Peer/PWLLE program involvement, Sex/Gender , Stigma
This is a commentary on a resent cost–benefit analysis done by Houdroge and colleagues of expanding needle exchange programs across federal prisons in Canada, who conclude that doing so would lead
Commentary | 2024
Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Harm reduction, Illegal drugs, Injecting drugs, Legal system/law enforcement, Overdose, Policy/Regulatory, Wrap-around services
We sought to assess the return on investment of existing Prison Needle Exchange Programs (PNEPs) in Canadian federal prisons and their expansion to all 43 institutions.
Original research | 2024
Injecting drugs, Harm reduction, Legal system/law enforcement, Policy/Regulatory, Social benefits, Social services
Toolkit | 2024
About prescribers, Alcohol, Clinical guidance, Hospitals, Transitions in care/treatment, Withdrawal, Wrap-around services
Toolkit | 2024
About PWUD, Clinical guidance, Opioids, Substitution/OAT, Treatment/recovery
Although street medicine is a rapidly growing field in the United States, existing street medicine programs have rarely been studied collectively, limiting our understanding of the nature, scope, a
Original research | 2024
Barriers and enablers, Equity, Housing, Poverty, Harm reduction, Wrap-around services
Recent measures to curb use and harms of pharmaceutical opioids in Australia have reduced dispensings of opioid analgesics for pain, under Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Original research | 2025
About prescribers, Hesitancy of prescribers , Hospitals, Opioids
Understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation strategies subsequently changed the trajectory of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission is cr
Original research | 2024
About people who use drugs, Harm reduction, HCV, Injecting drugs
With the aim of increasing advocacy efforts to help address the gap in hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination efforts in prisons, the International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (
Original research | 2024
Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Harm reduction, Legal system/law enforcement, Peer/PWLLE program involvement, Policy/Regulatory, Wrap-around services
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination requires treating people who use drugs (PWUD), yet <10% of PWUD in the United States access HCV treatment; access is especially limited in rural communities.
Original research | 2024
Barriers and enablers, Evidence base, Injecting drugs, Harm reduction, Peer/PWLLE program involvement, Rural/remote, Wrap-around services
This report reviews all accidental and undetermined youth unregulated drug toxicity deaths that occurred in B.C. between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2023.
Report | 2023
About PWUD, Illegal drugs, Mortality, Opioids, Overdose, Youth
Despite its proven efficacy, accessing methadone in the United States remains challenging due to regulatory barriers.
Commentary | 2024
Barriers and enablers, Equity, Legal system/law enforcement, Policy/Regulatory, Substitution/OAT
Article | 2024
Alcohol, Policy/Regulatory
The objectives of this study were to understand the characteristics of youth (aged 12-24 years) dying of accidental acute toxicity in Canada and examine the substances contributing to and circumsta
Original research | 2024
About PWUD, Barriers and enablers, Evidence base, Housing, Illegal drugs, Mental health, Mortality, Overdose, Poverty, Return to use, Youth
This study seeks to determine whether successes in engaging people who use drugs (PWUD) in HCV therapy (such as in Scotland) with simplified, task-shifted cascade of
Original research | 2024
Barriers and enablers, Harm reduction, Wrap-around services
Commentary | 2024
About PWUD, Barriers and enablers, Harm reduction, Hesitancy of prescribers , Illegal drugs, Overdose, Policy/Regulatory, Safer supply
