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Resources
Report | 2024
Barriers and enablers, Equity, Illegal drugs, Harm reduction, Overdose, Peer/PWLLE program involvement, Safer supply, Stigma, Substitution/OAT, Treatment/recovery, Wrap-around services
Report | 2024
About people who use drugs, Advocacy, Barriers and enablers, Decriminalization/legalization, Equity, Harm reduction, Housing, Illegal drugs, Legal system/law enforcement, Overdose, Peer/PWLLE program involvement, Rural/remote, Safer supply
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
