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Neo-colonialism and financing for the war on drugs: a review of current policy and recommendations for countries in the global north

Harm Reduction Journal
Globally, punitive drug control upholds racist and colonial structures. Marginalised and racialised communities, including Indigenous peoples, are disproportionately targeted and affected by punitive drug policy in law enforcement, judicial and carceral ...
Colleen Daniels, Naomi Burke-Shyne, Catherine Cook, Anoushka Beattie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

You just have to have other models, our DNA is different: the experiences of indigenous people who use illicit drugs and/or alcohol accessing substance use treatment

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Objectives In Canada, and elsewhere, indigenous peoples who use illicit drugs and/or alcohol (IPWUID/A) commonly experience vulnerability and a disproportionate burden of harm related to substance use.
Jennifer Lavalley, Shelda Kastor, Malcolm Tourangeau, Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society, Ashley Goodman, Thomas Kerr   +5 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Expanding access to harm reduction in rural communities through community-informed public health vending machines

Harm Reduction Journal
Background The opioid epidemic continues to disproportionately impact rural communities across the United States, where structural barriers, including geographic isolation, limited public health infrastructure, and heightened stigma, restrict access to ...
Lori Ann Eldridge, Christian Dotson, Lauren Harrell, Marcus Berry, Samantha Bradley, Alicia Brunelli, Jane Casarez, Virginia Fagg, Wendy Odum, Amanda McKenna-Williams, Kathleen L. Egan   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brane intersections, anti-de Sitter spacetimes and dual superconformal theories [PDF]

, 1998
We construct a class of intersecting brane solutions with horizon geometries of the form adS_k x S^l x S^m x E^n. We describe how all these solutions are connected through the addition of a wave and/or monopoles.
Boonstra, Harm Jan, Peeters, Bas, Skenderis, Kostas   +2 more
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The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘This is PEEP’ participatory qualitative study: learning from a provincial consultation and advisory group of people with lived and living experience of substance use in British Columbia, Canada

BMJ Open
Objectives To summarise PEEP’s (Professionals for Ethical Engagement of Peers—a group of consultants with lived and living experience of substance use) outputs and gain insights into PEEP’s impact and suggestions for the future.Design Included an ...
Jane A Buxton, Kurt Lock, Charlene Burmeister, Kerolos Daowd, Jessica Lamb, Jenny McDougall, Amirnima Danaei, Paul Choisil, Elizabeth Haywood, Iesha Henderson, Kali Sedgemore   +10 more
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The harms of promoting ‘Zero Harm’ [PDF]

BMJ Quality & Safety, 2019
In this issue, Amalberti and Vincent1 ask ‘what strategies we might adopt to protect patients when healthcare systems and organizations are under stress and simply cannot provide the standard of care they aspire to’. This is clearly a critical and much overdue question, as many healthcare organisations are in an almost constant state of stress from ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Addressing Youth Perceptions of Harm in Marijuana Prevention Programming [PDF]

, 2018
The inverse relationship between perception of harm and substance use is clearly supported by decades of research – youth are less likely to engage in substance use when it is seen as harmful.
,, Dash, Kimberly, Esrick, Joshua, Quinlan, Kristen J, Rots, Gisela, Valenti, Maria   +5 more
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Efficacy and Safety Analysis of Roxarestat in Regulating Renal Anemia in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
wiley   +1 more source