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Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon
Vancouver, Canada, and Lisbon, Portugal, are both celebrated for their world-leading harm reduction policies and programs and regarded as models for other cities contending with the effects of increasing levels of drug use in the context of growing urban poverty. However, we challenge the notion tha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9064719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00607-7 |
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author | Canêdo, Joana Sedgemore, Kali-olt Ebbert, Kelly Anderson, Haleigh Dykeman, Rainbow Kincaid, Katey Dias, Claudia Silva, Diana Charlesworth, Reith Knight, Rod Fast, Danya |
author_facet | Canêdo, Joana Sedgemore, Kali-olt Ebbert, Kelly Anderson, Haleigh Dykeman, Rainbow Kincaid, Katey Dias, Claudia Silva, Diana Charlesworth, Reith Knight, Rod Fast, Danya |
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description | Vancouver, Canada, and Lisbon, Portugal, are both celebrated for their world-leading harm reduction policies and programs and regarded as models for other cities contending with the effects of increasing levels of drug use in the context of growing urban poverty. However, we challenge the notion that internationally celebrated places like Lisbon and Vancouver are meeting the harm reduction needs of young people who use drugs (YPWUD; referring here to individuals between the ages of 14 and 29). In particular, the needs of YPWUD in the context of unstable housing, homelessness, and ongoing poverty—a context which we summarize here as “street involvement”—are not being adequately met. We are a group of community and academic researchers and activists working in Vancouver, Lisbon, and Pittsburgh. Most of us identify as YPWUD and have lived and living experience with the issues described in this comment. We make several calls to action to support the harm reduction needs of YPWUD in the context of street involvement in and beyond our settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-90647192022-05-04 Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon Canêdo, Joana Sedgemore, Kali-olt Ebbert, Kelly Anderson, Haleigh Dykeman, Rainbow Kincaid, Katey Dias, Claudia Silva, Diana Charlesworth, Reith Knight, Rod Fast, Danya Harm Reduct J Comment Vancouver, Canada, and Lisbon, Portugal, are both celebrated for their world-leading harm reduction policies and programs and regarded as models for other cities contending with the effects of increasing levels of drug use in the context of growing urban poverty. However, we challenge the notion that internationally celebrated places like Lisbon and Vancouver are meeting the harm reduction needs of young people who use drugs (YPWUD; referring here to individuals between the ages of 14 and 29). In particular, the needs of YPWUD in the context of unstable housing, homelessness, and ongoing poverty—a context which we summarize here as “street involvement”—are not being adequately met. We are a group of community and academic researchers and activists working in Vancouver, Lisbon, and Pittsburgh. Most of us identify as YPWUD and have lived and living experience with the issues described in this comment. We make several calls to action to support the harm reduction needs of YPWUD in the context of street involvement in and beyond our settings. BioMed Central 2022-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9064719/ /pubmed/35505320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00607-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis 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/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Comment Canêdo, Joana Sedgemore, Kali-olt Ebbert, Kelly Anderson, Haleigh Dykeman, Rainbow Kincaid, Katey Dias, Claudia Silva, Diana Charlesworth, Reith Knight, Rod Fast, Danya Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon |
title | Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon |
title_full | Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon |
title_fullStr | Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon |
title_full_unstemmed | Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon |
title_short | Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon |
title_sort | harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of vancouver and lisbon |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9064719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00607-7 |
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