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"When she's there, I no longer worry about her being arrested"-Family perspectives on compulsory drug rehabilitation in Vietnam and implications for community-based services.
Int J Drug Policy
January 2025
Division of Addiction Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare and University of Minnesota Medical School, United States.
Introduction: Compulsory drug rehabilitation continues to be a major governmental response to illicit drug use in East and Southeast Asia despite repeated calls for its discontinuation. Extensive evidence from individuals with substance use disorders and advocacy groups highlights the adverse health, social and economic outcomes associated with compulsory drug rehabilitation. However, the perspective of families on this issue remains relatively unexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMotivations for and perspectives of medication diversion among clients of a safer opioid supply program in Toronto, Canada.
Int J Drug Policy
January 2025
Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address:
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- - The study aimed to understand the experiences and perspectives of clients involved in safer opioid supply programs in Toronto, focusing on the diversion of medications, which is a concern in such programs.
- - Researchers conducted interviews with 25 clients over several months, identifying key themes such as compassionate sharing, survival needs, high demand for safer alternatives, and issues of coercion in medication diversion.
- - The findings reveal complex motivations behind medication diversion, suggesting that future policies should tackle the underlying causes and improve access to services and diverse medication needs for clients.
HPV vaccine knowledge, attitude, and programme satisfaction among parents and caregivers of vaccine recipients in Ogun state Nigeria.
Reprod Health
December 2024
Faculty of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Introduction: Human Papillomavirus is responsible for about 5% of the global cancer burden. In Nigeria, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women. The Federal Government of Nigeria and partners recently introduced Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination into routine immunization beginning with 15 States and the Federal Capital Territory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHow the War on Drugs Impacts Social Determinants of Health Beyond the Criminal Legal System.
Focus (Am Psychiatr Publ)
October 2024
Department of Research and Academic Engagement, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY, USA (Cohen, Vakharia and Netherland). Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY, USA (Frederique).
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- The social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly influence health inequities, indicating that focusing only on individual medical interventions is insufficient.
- The U.S. war on drugs exacerbates negative health impacts, particularly for low-income communities and people of color, by imposing criminalization and disrupting access to necessary resources.
- Medical practitioners can enhance community health by challenging the harmful effects of criminalization in healthcare and participating in policy reform initiatives.
On Being Open in Closed Places: Vulnerability and Violence in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings.
Nurs Philos
January 2025
Department of Humanities, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, USA.
High levels of violence and conflict occur in inpatient psychiatric settings, causing a range of psychological and physical harms to both patients and staff. Drawing on critiques of vulnerability from the philosophical literature, this paper contends that staff's understanding of their relationship with patients (including how they should respond to violence and conflict) rests on the dominant, reductive account of vulnerability. This account frames vulnerability as an increased susceptibility to harm and so regards 'invulnerable' staff's responsibility to be protecting and managing vulnerable patients.
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