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Addressing the Syndemic of HIV, Hepatitis C, Overdose, and COVID-19 Among People Who Use Drugs: The Potential Roles for Decriminalization and Safe Supply.
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People who use drugs (PWUD) face concurrent public health emergencies from overdoses, HIV, hepatitis C, and COVID-19, leading to an unprecedented syndemic. Responses to PWUD that go beyond treatment--such as decriminalization and providing a safe supply of pharmaceutical-grade drugs--could reduce impacts of this syndemic. Solutions already implemented for COVID-19, such as emergency safe-supply prescribing and providing housing to people experiencing homelessness, must be sustained once COVID-19 is contained. This pandemic is not only a public health crisis but also a chance to develop and maintain equitable and sustainable solutions to the harms associated with the criminalization of drug use.
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“…branches of law enforcement (Canadian Association of Police Chiefs, 2020; Zimonjic, 2020), have called for more robust policy reform such as the decriminalization of illegal drugs and the implementation of wide-reaching safe supply programs (Bonn et al., 2020; CAPUD, 2019; Ivsins et al., 2020).”
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Russell, C., Ali, F., Imtiaz, S., Butler, A., Greer, A., Rehm, J., the Decriminalization Evaluation Research Group, Bardwell, G., Bonn, M., Boyd, J., et al. (2024) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-024-20336-9 · Cited by 19
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- Authors
- Bonn, M., Palayew, A., Bartlett, S., Brothers, T. D., Touesnard, N., & Tyndall, M.
- Affiliations
- Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Venue
- Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
- Publisher
- Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 556-560
- ISSN
- 1937-1888
- 1938-4114
- Cited by
- 124
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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