Just have this come from their prescription pad: the medicalization of safer supply from the perspectives of health planners in BC, Canada

Original research
par
Macevicius, Celeste et al

Date de publication

2023

Géographie

Canada

Langue de la ressource

English

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Non

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Non

Évalué par des pairs

Yes

L’objectif

This study presents health planners’ perspectives on the Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) adoption within a medicalized system of care.

Constatations/points à retenir

Health planners recognized and often problematized the over-medicalized nature of current safer supply models. Challenges with medicalization include privileging dominant ideologies (e.g. biomedicine), exerting social control, and perpetuating inequities. Greater attention to the relationships between harm reduction, medical, and criminal justice models in drug policy is needed to avoid compromises of medicalization within criminalization. Grassroots harm reduction may be critical in advancing safer supply beyond medical models.

La conception ou méthodologie de recherche

Interviews (n=28)

Mots clés

Safer supply
Policy/Regulatory