Exploring the early impacts of drug decriminalization on harm reduction and opioid agonist treatment service operations and delivery in British Columbia: insights from key informant interviews
Year: 2025
Type: article
Language: en
Topic: HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Authors and affiliations:
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Ontario Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM), Rm.906, 250 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada. Cayley.Russell@camh.ca
raw_author_name: Savannah Torres-Salbach
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Ontario Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM), Rm.906, 250 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada
raw_author_name: Laura MacKinnon
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raw_author_name: Rita Shahin
raw_affiliation_strings: Toronto Public Health, 55 John St, Toronto, ON, M5V 3C6, Canada
raw_author_name: Dylan Griffith
raw_affiliation_strings: Kootenay Insurrection for Safe Supply, 40-622 Front St, Nelson, BC, V1L 4B7, Canada
raw_author_name: Kate Hodgson
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Department of Nurse Practitioners, Vancouver Coastal Health, 520 West 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada
raw_author_name: Charlene Burmeister
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raw_author_name: Courtney Amoraal
raw_affiliation_strings: Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine, 53 Sunlake Rd. SE, Calgary, AB, T2X 3G8, Canada
raw_author_name: Frank Crichlow
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raw_author_name: Sameer Imtiaz
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Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 250 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada
Ontario Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM), Rm.906, 250 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada
raw_author_name: Jürgen Rehm
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Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistraße 52, Hamburg, 20246, Germany
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 480 University Ave, Suite 300, Toronto, ON, M5G 1V2, Canada
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 250 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada
Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
Ontario Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM), Rm.906, 250 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada
Program on Substance Abuse & WHO European Region Collaboration Centre, Public Health Institute of Catalonia, Aragó Street 330, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08009, Spain
raw_author_name: Farihah Ali
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Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 250 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada
Ontario Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM), Rm.906, 250 College St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada