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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"overdose crisis"”.
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The Political Economy of the Overdose Crisis in Western Canada: An Exploratory Case Study
… Canada is in the throes of a drug/substance overdose crisis causing unprecedented numbers of overdose and death. Responses to the crisis have been largely reactive and/or medical in nature, highlighting the need for better understanding of its underlying structural determinants. The crisis …
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Visualizing global drug flows : transnational connections to the overdose crisis in New England, USA
… synthetic opioid; and (b) naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote used in the public health crisis of drug overdose deaths in Massachusetts, USA. Beginning locally in Massachusetts, I filmed parents reflecting on losing children to overdoses, first responders administering naloxone to save …
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THE HIDDEN HAUNTINGS OF THE OPIOID & OVERDOSE CRISIS: A POLICY REVIEW OF HARM REDUCTION AND SAFE INJECTION SITES IN VANCOUVER, OTTAWA, TORONTO, LONDON, AND WINDSOR.
The drug and opioid overdose crisis have led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people. As such, harm reduction and safe injection sites have been making their appearances throughout Canada, specifically within British Columbia and Ontario. The policies held in Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, …
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Large-Scale Online Conversations About Public Health: Predicting Real-World Outcomes
Drug overdose remains one of the most severe public health challenges in the United States. Although online communities contain vast amounts of firsthand accounts, personal experiences, and peer-to-peer discussions about drug use, it is still unclear how these conversations can be analyzed to …
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A Geographic Framework for the Optimal Placement of Interventions for Opioid Treatment Deployment in Underserved Areas (OPIOID-UA)
… a complex system in response to a gradual onset crisis in an effort to develop a framework of spatial response. The context of the research will be the spatial system in which the health care system delivers care,; the crisis is the opioid overdose epidemic. The opioid overdose crisis in the …
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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC
… of criminal legal system reform and the overdose crisis. I take up how multiracial groups of criminalized women—thrown together by the state, not by choice—refuse forms of state control and violence, and imagine together alternative “outlaw” horizons of justice, healing, drug use, and …