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Addressing the Syndemic of HIV, Hepatitis C, Overdose, and COVID-19 Among People Who Use Drugs: The Potential Roles for Decriminalization and Safe Supply.

Matthew Bonn1, Adam Palayew2, Sofia Bartlett3, Thomas D Brothers4, Natasha Touesnard1, Mark Tyndall5.   

Abstract

People who use drugs (PWUD) face concurrent public health emergencies from overdoses, HIV, hepatitis C, and COVID-19, leading to an unprecedented syndemic. Responses to PWUD that go beyond treatment--such as decriminalization and providing a safe supply of pharmaceutical-grade drugs--could reduce impacts of this syndemic. Solutions already implemented for COVID-19, such as emergency safe-supply prescribing and providing housing to people experiencing homelessness, must be sustained once COVID-19 is contained. This pandemic is not only a public health crisis but also a chance to develop and maintain equitable and sustainable solutions to the harms associated with the criminalization of drug use.

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Year:  2020        PMID： 33028465

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Stud Alcohol Drugs        ISSN： 1937-1888            Impact factor:   2.582


  32 in total

1.  Implementation of Safe Supply Alternatives During Intersecting COVID-19 and Overdose Health Emergencies in British Columbia, Canada, 2021.

Authors:  Ryan McNeil; Taylor Fleming; Samara Mayer; Allison Barker; Manal Mansoor; Alex Betsos; Tamar Austin; Sylvia Parusel; Andrew Ivsins; Jade Boyd
Journal:  Am J Public Health       Date:  2022-03-09       Impact factor: 9.308

2.  Opioid agonist treatment and risk of death or rehospitalization following injection drug use-associated bacterial and fungal infections: A cohort study in New South Wales, Australia.

Authors:  Thomas D Brothers; Dan Lewer; Nicola Jones; Samantha Colledge-Frisby; Michael Farrell; Matthew Hickman; Duncan Webster; Andrew Hayward; Louisa Degenhardt
Journal:  PLoS Med       Date:  2022-07-19       Impact factor: 11.613

3.  Putting the Horse Before the Unicorn: A Safe Supply Strategy Should Begin With Partial Agonists--A Commentary on Bonn et al. (2020).

Authors:  Brandon Del Pozo; Richard A Rawson
Journal:  J Stud Alcohol Drugs       Date:  2020-09       Impact factor: 2.582

4.  Which lives are worth saving? Biolegitimacy and harm reduction during COVID-19.

Authors:  Catherine Larocque; Thomas Foth
Journal:  Nurs Inq       Date:  2021-04-22       Impact factor: 2.658

5.  "People need them or else they're going to take fentanyl and die": A qualitative study examining the 'problem' of prescription opioid diversion during an overdose epidemic.

Authors:  Geoff Bardwell; Will Small; Jennifer Lavalley; Ryan McNeil; Thomas Kerr
Journal:  Soc Sci Med       Date:  2021-05-03       Impact factor: 5.379

6.  A Descriptive Comparison of Substance Use Services in Recovery and Isolation Sites for People Experiencing Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Boston and Toronto.

Authors:  Miriam T H Harris; Samantha Young; Joshua Barocas; Ahmed M Bayoumi; Alexander Caudarella; Gab Laurence; Mary Tomanovich; Miriam Komaromy
Journal:  Public Health Rep       Date:  2021-07-16       Impact factor: 3.117

7.  Factors associated with 60-day adherence to "safer supply" opioids prescribed under British Columbia's interim clinical guidance for health care providers to support people who use drugs during COVID-19 and the ongoing overdose emergency.

Authors:  Marion Selfridge; Kiffer Card; Taylor Kandler; Erin Flanagan; Emily Lerhe; Ash Heaslip; Anne Nguyen; Matthew Moher; Bernie Pauly; Karen Urbanoski; Chris Fraser
Journal:  Int J Drug Policy       Date:  2022-05-04

8.  Evolution of the Illegal Substances Market and Substance Users' Social Situation and Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Authors:  Jacques Gaume; Elodie Schmutz; Jean-Bernard Daeppen; Frank Zobel
Journal:  Int J Environ Res Public Health       Date:  2021-05-07       Impact factor: 3.390

Review 9.  The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A syndemic perspective.

Authors:  Inês Fronteira; Mohsin Sidat; João Paulo Magalhães; Fernando Passos Cupertino de Barros; António Pedro Delgado; Tiago Correia; Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro; Paulo Ferrinho
Journal:  One Health       Date:  2021-02-17

10.  Social and structural determinants of injecting-related bacterial and fungal infections among people who inject drugs: protocol for a mixed studies systematic review.

Authors:  Thomas D Brothers; Dan Lewer; Matthew Bonn; Duncan Webster; Magdalena Harris
Journal:  BMJ Open       Date:  2021-08-09       Impact factor: 2.692
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