Safe injection sites are spaces where people who inject drugs can do so under the
supervision of staff at the sites who attempt to revive them if they overdose. Public officials in …

Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this
hardhitting exposè of US efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a …

Abstract Research Summary: Using a national survey experiment, we examined Americans'
national and local‐level support for facilities that provide a safer space for individuals to …

A growing trend in social research concerning illicit drug use has entailed suspending
regard for conventional questions such as the etiology of drug problems and the outcomes …

Our 2007–2009 ethnography describes and analyses the practice of harm reduction in a
heroin users' group in the midwestern United States. While dominant addiction interventions …

Historically, drug use has been understood as a problem of epidemiology, psychiatry,
physiology, and criminality requiring legal and medical governance. Consequently drug …

Background Injection drug use initiation is shaped by social networks and structural
contexts, with people who inject drugs often assisting in this process. We sought to explore …

The drug courts in the United States exemplify how mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion
are mediated by complex cultural constructions of ways in which we mayfeel good'rather …

This article analyzes the arguments put forth over a 3-day period at an injunction hearing,
Providence Health Care Society v. Canada, held March 13–15, 2014 in Vancouver, British …

Background Globally, communities are struggling to gain support for harm reduction
strategies being implemented to address the impacts of substance use. A key part of this …