Additional Drug Policy Articles

Incarceration and drug use patterns among a cohort of injection drug users.

Kora DeBeck, Thomas Kerr, Kathy Li, MJ Milloy, Julio Montaner & Evan Wood

Drug Situation in Vancouver, October 2009

Urban Studies Institute, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Articles on Vancouver's Safer Injection Site (Insite)

General

Insight into Insite, (Research Summary Series) BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

BC Health Officers Council Support for Supervised Injection Services  PDF

Nursing and Insite

Nurse-delivered safer injection education among a cohort of injection drug users: Evidence from the evaluation
of Vancouver’s supervised injection facility

R. Alan Wood, Evan Wood, Calvin Lai, Mark W. Tyndall, Julio S.G. Montaner, Thomas Kerr

Almost half of supervised injection facility users receive safer injection education from nurses at the facility

(Research to Community Series) BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Policing and Insite

Police and public health partnerships: Evidence from the evaluation of Vancouver's supervised injection facility,
Kora DeBeck, Evan Wood, Ruth Zhang, Mark Tyndall, Julio Montaner, and Thomas Kerr

Policing and public health partnerships: the role of Vancouver police in supporting a supervised injection
facility
, (Research Summary) BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Aboriginal Persons

Burden of HIV Infection Among Aboriginal Injection Drug Users in Canada,
Evan Wood, Julio S. G. Montaner, Kathy Li, Ruth Zhang, Lucy Barney, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Mark W. Tyndall, and Thomas Kerr

Aboriginal injection drug users are more likely than non-Aboriginal injection drug users to contract HIV,

(Research Summary), BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Women

Seeking refuge from violence in street-based drug scenes: Women’s experiences in North America’s first supervised injection facility
Nadia Fairbairn, Will Small, Kate Shannon, Evan Wood, Thomas Kerr

Insite: A safe haven for women who inject drugs

(Research to Community Series) BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Prison Issues

HIV risks associated with incarceration among injection drug users: implications for prison-based public health strategies,

Daniel Werb,Thomas Kerr, Will Small, Kathy Li, Julio Montaner, Evan Wood

Incarceration experiences in a cohort of active injection drug users,
M.J. Milloy, Evan Wood, Will Small, Mark Tyndall, Calvin Lai, Julio Montaner, & Thomas Kerr

Canada’s prison system is contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS, according to two new studies conducted by
researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
, (Research to Community Series), BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Insite, Evidence and Research

Canada’s government continues to mishandle research: international scientists

(Research to Community Series) BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

The Canadian government’s treatment of scientific process and evidence: Inside the evaluation of North America’s first
supervised injecting facility
, Evan Wood, Thomas Kerr, Mark W. Tyndall, Julio S.G. Montaner

Adrift from the moorings of good public policy: Ignoring evidence and human rights,

Richard Elliott

Going soft on evidence and due process: Canada adopts US style harm maximization,

A. Wodak

The implicit rules of evidence-based drug policy: A U.S. perspective,
Robert MacCouna and Peter Reuter

Health, Wellness and Employment

Accessing care for injection-related infections through a medically supervised injecting facility: A qualitative study
Will Small, Evan Wood, Elisa Lloyd-Smith, Mark Tyndall, Thomas Kerr

Overdose deaths prevented in Insite

Urban Health Institute, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (Research to Community Series)

Non-Fatal Overdose Among a Cohort of Active Injection Drug Users Recruited from a Supervised Injection Facility

M.J.S. Milloy, Thomas Kerr, Richard Mathias, Ruth Zhang, Julio S. Montaner, Mark Tyndall, Evan Wood

Insite Users Not More Likely to Overdose

Urban Health Research Institute, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (Research to Community Series)

Employment Among Users of a Medically Supervised Safer Injection Facility

Lindsey Richardson, Evan Wood, Ruth Zhang, Julio Montaner, Mark Tyndall, and Thomas Kerr

An Integrated Supervised Injecting Program Within a Care Facility for HIV-Positive Individuals: a qualitatative evaluation

Andrea Krusi, Will Small, Evan wood and Thomas Kerr

Economic Issues

A cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of Vancouver’s supervised injection facility
Martin A. Andresen and Neil Boyd

Educating Harper Home

Updated: December 14, 2009