A5010912923- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Historical and Scientific Studies
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
2022-2024
University of British Columbia
2023-2024
University of Victoria
2007-2024
St. Paul's Hospital
2022
Meaningful engagement and partnerships with people who use drugs are essential to conducting research that is relevant impactful in supporting desired outcomes of drug consumption as well reducing drug-related harms overdose COVID-19. Community-based participatory a key strategy for engaging communities directly affects their lives. While there growing descriptions community-based identification principles research, gap relation models frameworks guide drugs. The purpose this paper provide...
Context In March 2020, British Columbia introduced the Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) to enable prescription of pharmaceutical substitutes for unregulated drug market decrease overdose deaths and COVID-19 infections. This study presents health planners' perspectives on RMG adoption within a medicalized system care.
Settings throughout Canada and the USA continue to experience crises of overdose death due toxic unregulated drug supply. Injecting drugs alone limits potential for intervention has accounted a significant proportion deaths, yet practice remains understudied. We sought examine injecting among people who inject (PWID) in Vancouver, Canada.Data were derived from two prospective cohorts use between June 2016 November 2018. This analysis was restricted participants who, previous 6 months,...
The ongoing overdose crisis in Canada has prompted efforts to increase access a "safer supply" of prescribed alternatives the unregulated drug supply. While safer supply programs predominantly distribute hydromorphone tablets, Safer Alternatives for Emergency Response (SAFER) program Vancouver, offers range alternatives, including fentanyl patches. However, little is known about effectiveness patches as Drawing on perspectives and experiences participants, we sought qualitatively evaluate...
This article analyzes the arguments put forth over a 3-day period at an injunction hearing, Providence Health Care Society v. Canada, held March 13–15, 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The plaintiffs sought broad interlocutory relief from Court for provision of prescription heroin if requested by their physicians. fills identified gap scholarship analyzing civil Charter challenge, including notice claim, court transcripts, judgment, and individual plaintiffs’ affidavits. We draw Canada’s...

 First Nations people and communities have long been championing the provision of holistic, self-determining, culturally safe, responsive health care. In April 2016, a catastrophic rise in illicit drug overdose deaths province British Columbia (BC), Canada, led to declaration public emergency. Due compounding historical ongoing impacts colonialism, including trauma inequitable access services, BC are disproportionately impacted by this crisis. response, Health Authority created Not...
Abstract Introduction Indigenous people who use unregulated drugs (IPWUD) face significant barriers to care, including sparse availability of culturally safe health services. Integrating traditional and cultural treatments (TCT) into service delivery is one way enhance care. In a Canadian setting that implemented safety reforms, we sought examine the prevalence correlates client perceptions primary care provider awareness TCT among IPWUD. Methods Data were derived from two prospective cohort...
In response to the dual public health emergencies of COVID-19 and overdose crisis, Government British Columbia (BC) introduced risk mitigation prescribing, or prescribed safer supply. context colonialism racism, Indigenous people are disproportionately impacted by substance use harms experience significant barriers receiving care, particularly those living in rural remote communities. As part a larger provincial evaluation, we sought assess implementation prescribing as experienced who drugs...