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Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10661131/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37930628 http://dx.doi.org/10.17269/s41997-023-00825-x |
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author | Salvalaggio, Ginetta Brooks, Hannah Caine, Vera Gagnon, Marilou Godley, Jenny Houston, Stan Kennedy, Mary Clare Kosteniuk, Brynn Livingston, Jamie Saah, Rebecca Speed, Kelsey Urbanoski, Karen Werb, Dan Hyshka, Elaine |
author_facet | Salvalaggio, Ginetta Brooks, Hannah Caine, Vera Gagnon, Marilou Godley, Jenny Houston, Stan Kennedy, Mary Clare Kosteniuk, Brynn Livingston, Jamie Saah, Rebecca Speed, Kelsey Urbanoski, Karen Werb, Dan Hyshka, Elaine |
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description | Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients’ connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioeconomic impacts of seven supervised consumption services in the province. The report is formatted to appear as an objective, scientifically credible evaluation of these services; however, it is fundamentally methodologically flawed, with a high risk of biases that critically undermine its authors’ assessment of the scientific evidence. The report’s findings have been used to justify decisions that jeopardize the health and well-being of people who use drugs both in Canada and internationally. Governments must ensure that future assessments of supervised consumption services and other public health measures to address drug poisoning deaths are scientifically sound and methodologically rigorous. Health policy must be based on the best available evidence, protect the right of structurally vulnerable populations to access healthcare, and not be contingent on favourable public opinion or prevailing political ideology. |
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spelling | pubmed-106611312023-11-06 Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta Salvalaggio, Ginetta Brooks, Hannah Caine, Vera Gagnon, Marilou Godley, Jenny Houston, Stan Kennedy, Mary Clare Kosteniuk, Brynn Livingston, Jamie Saah, Rebecca Speed, Kelsey Urbanoski, Karen Werb, Dan Hyshka, Elaine Can J Public Health Commentary Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients’ connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioeconomic impacts of seven supervised consumption services in the province. The report is formatted to appear as an objective, scientifically credible evaluation of these services; however, it is fundamentally methodologically flawed, with a high risk of biases that critically undermine its authors’ assessment of the scientific evidence. The report’s findings have been used to justify decisions that jeopardize the health and well-being of people who use drugs both in Canada and internationally. Governments must ensure that future assessments of supervised consumption services and other public health measures to address drug poisoning deaths are scientifically sound and methodologically rigorous. Health policy must be based on the best available evidence, protect the right of structurally vulnerable populations to access healthcare, and not be contingent on favourable public opinion or prevailing political ideology. Springer International Publishing 2023-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10661131/ /pubmed/37930628 http://dx.doi.org/10.17269/s41997-023-00825-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Commentary Salvalaggio, Ginetta Brooks, Hannah Caine, Vera Gagnon, Marilou Godley, Jenny Houston, Stan Kennedy, Mary Clare Kosteniuk, Brynn Livingston, Jamie Saah, Rebecca Speed, Kelsey Urbanoski, Karen Werb, Dan Hyshka, Elaine Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta |
title | Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta |
title_full | Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta |
title_fullStr | Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta |
title_full_unstemmed | Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta |
title_short | Flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in Alberta |
title_sort | flawed reports can harm: the case of supervised consumption services in alberta |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10661131/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37930628 http://dx.doi.org/10.17269/s41997-023-00825-x |
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