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A multi criteria decision analysis for evaluating and appraising government policy responses to non-medical heroin use

By Regulation Project / June 13, 2021 June 19, 2021
syringe injecting drugs

State control of heroin was identified as the preferred policy option although other policy regimes scored better on specific outcome criteria.

A public health based vision for the management and regulation of opioids

By Regulation Project / June 13, 2021 June 13, 2021
pills and powder on a table

With any of these models, this approach, while attending to illegal market drivers, would result in a greatly reduced illegal opioid market and its attendant toxic products, reduced violence and corruption, and at the same time, provide a sharper focus for medical use with more appropriate prescribing and indications.

The regulation project: Tools for engaging the public in the legal regulation of drugs

By Regulation Project / June 13, 2021 June 13, 2021
Scott Bernstein at the front of a room giving a presentation with a projector

An alternative approach to prohibition is for government to retake control of the currently illegal drug market through legal regulatory mechanisms.

Tracing a path for opium gum from Mexico as a safe supply harm reduction measure for Canada

By Regulation Project / June 12, 2021 June 13, 2021
Field of poppy plants

The prohibition of opium has wide ranging health and development impacts that bring up a moral imperative regarding the safe supply of diverse opium-based products –including opium gum and heroin– that urgently need to be explored and addressed.

Bereaved mothers’ engagement in drug policy reform: A multisite qualitative analysis

By Regulation Project / June 12, 2021 June 13, 2021
Mothers standing with signs during a rally

Mothers’ stories were identified as a particularly powerful tool for conveying emotional knowledge and prompting action that complements other forms of knowledge or evidence.

Overdose among mothers: The association between child removal and unintentional drug overdose

By Regulation Project / June 12, 2021 June 13, 2021
Hand holding baby's foot

This analysis suggests that, after controlling for known confounders, women who have a child removed experience higher odds of overdose, and these odds are highest among Indigenous women.

Consumer protection in drug policy: The human rights case for safe supply as an element of harm reduction

By Regulation Project / June 12, 2021 June 13, 2021

It is argued here that the safe supply obligations of governments with respect to psychotropic drugs are analogous to other state responsibilities in the area of consumer protection and extend to all people using any kind of psychotropic substance.

Heroin and the illegal drug overdose death epidemic: A history of missed opportunities and resistance

By Regulation Project / June 12, 2021 June 13, 2021
Protestors holding a sign reading "safe supply not left to die"

Those most affected by drug policies demand inclusion and representation, access to a legal heroin supply, and the establishment and maintenance of heroin buyer clubs, contesting the very foundations of drug control in the twenty-first century.

Race, cannabis and the Canadian war on drugs: An examination of cannabis arrest data by race in five cities

By Regulation Project / June 12, 2021 June 13, 2021
cannabis

With just one exception, we find that both Black and Indigenous people are over-represented amongst those arrested for cannabis possession across the five cities examined.

A highly charged field: Mapping energies, currents and desires for reform in Canadian expert responses to drug law

By Regulation Project / June 11, 2021 June 13, 2021
Lightning storm

There are multiple, unpredictable effects in engaging and resisting law, and thus difficulty in tackling criminalisation in any clear and simple way.

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