Damon Barrett

ORCID: 0000-0002-1668-596X
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Research Areas
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Torture, Ethics, and Law
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
  • Pharmaceutical studies and practices
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Discrimination and Equality Law
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare

University of Gothenburg
2020-2024

Stockholm University
2011-2016

University of Essex
2011-2016

Access for legal minors to needle and syringe programmes raises a number of practical, ethical challenges that traverse clinical practice, child protection rights. This article addresses the current age restriction on access (NSPs) in Sweden. Based legislation legislative preparatory works, it traces rationale retaining an context policy priority improve people who inject drugs. Building threshold theory rights literature, unpacks apparent tension between protecting low nature service...

10.1186/s12954-022-00597-6 article EN cc-by Harm Reduction Journal 2022-02-11

Harm reduction has become increasingly influential in drug policy and practice, but developed primarily around adult use. Theoretical, practical, ethical legal issues pertaining to children adolescents under the age of majority - both relating their own use effects among parents or within family are less clear. This commentary proposes a sub-field at intersection harm childhood which we refer as 'child-centred reduction'. We provide definition conceptual model, well illustrative questions...

10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103857 article EN cc-by International Journal of Drug Policy 2022-09-26

Injection drug use among legal minors is under-researched. Although the population may be small in absolute terms, treatment needs greater than for those who began injecting as adults. Such knowledge help tailor services more effectively. Previous research tends to selective samples or focuses solely on medical indicators. The present study uses a larger sample drawn from national register data Sweden over 9-year period (2013-2021) analyze differences and social between people their older...

10.1080/10826084.2023.2223267 article EN cc-by Substance Use & Misuse 2023-06-26

Background Research on legal minors who inject drugs is rare and beset with methodological problems. We explore the potential of register data for researching this population present illustrative analyses contributing to knowledge base.

10.1080/09687637.2024.2416590 article EN cc-by Drugs Education Prevention and Policy 2024-10-16
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