Understanding women’s perspectives on take-home naloxone: New research broadsheet and overdose response resources

The DruGS team has just completed an innovative project exploring women’s perspectives on take-home naloxone, a drug that can temporarily reverse opioid overdose. While research suggests that gender can shape engagement with harm reduction initiatives such as take-home naloxone programs, these issues have only been fleetingly been acknowledged in available research. Responding to this, the…

Responding to Crisis

Along with participants from the US, Mexico, Canada and other parts of the world, SSAC program leader Suzanne Fraser and SSAC adjunct Kate Seear participated in May in an historic roundtable event, held in Vancouver by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Entitled “Responding to Crisis: A Public Health and Human Rights Approach to the Legal…