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 Bonn; Adam Palayew; Sofia Bartlett; Thomas D. Brothers; Natasha Touesnard; Mark Tyndall

doi:10.15288/jsad.2020.81.556

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 Bonn, Adam Palayew, Sofia Bartlett, Thomas D. Brothers, Natasha Touesnard, Mark Tyndall

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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.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	556-560
Número de páginas	5
Publicación	Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
Volumen	81
N.º	5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2020.81.556
Estado	Published - sep. 2020

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Thomas D. Brothers is supported by the Dalhousie University Internal Medicine Research Foundation Fellowship and the Killam Postgraduate Scholarship, by the Ross Stewart Smith Memorial Fellowship in Medical Research, and by the Clinician Investigator Program Graduate Stipend from Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine.

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En: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Vol. 81, N.º 5, 09.2020, p. 556-560.

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