Reading Group Events
June 2023: Successful Substance Use Disorder Recovery on Transitional Housing: Perspectives from African American Women
Join us to discuss the work of Emma Kreuger and colleagues! This article looks at how African American women live in cities in America, and how their lives are affected by poverty, racism, and sexism. To create social change in recovery, programs must think about the...
April 2023: The role of the “Peer Recovery/Support Worker” in substance use treatment services in the UK and the US
Join us to discuss the work of Wiktor Kulik and Amar Shah! This study describes a project in the Tower Hamlets borough of London, at the Specialist Addictions Unit, the “Breakfast Club,” a patient meeting about recovery with less focus on medical treatment. The...
March 2023: The Cost of Caring: Compassion Fatigue Among Peer Overdose Response Workers in British Columbia
Join us to discuss the work of Zahra Mamdani and colleagues! The drug overdose crisis has had dramatic effects on people who use drugs. Peer overdose response workers (peer responders), are people with lived/living experience of drug use who work in overdose response...
February 2023: Xylazine and Overdose: Trends, Concerns, and Recommendations
Join us to discuss the work of Alexander Carver and colleagues! Xylazine (pronounced “zye-lah-zeen”) is a drug that is used in veterinary practice to keep animals calm, prevent them from feeling pain and help them sleep during medical procedures. Xylazine is being...
October 2022: Experiences of care among individuals with opioid use disorder-associated endocarditis and their healthcare providers
Join us to discuss the work of Benjamin Bearnot and colleagues! People who use drugs that are in hospital because of a heart infection often have poor clinical outcomes. But not a lot is known about the care received. In this qualitative study, researchers spoke to...
June 2022: Emerging consensus on measuring addiction recovery: Findings from a multi-stakeholder consultation exercise
Join us to discuss the work of Jo Neale and colleagues! What is seen as important in recovery can be different for each person and can change over time. To understand what parts of recovery are important most of the time for most people, this study surveyed service...
April 2023: Diagnostic remission of substance use disorders: Racial differences and correlates of remission in a nationally representative sample
Join us to discuss the work of Tanner Bommersbach and colleagues! This article discusses how while research has explored the similarities and differences in racial/ethnic minorities to Whites in developing substance use disorders, this article is one of the few that...
March 2022: Hoots and harm reduction: a qualitative study identifying gaps in overdose prevention among women who smoke drugs
Join us to discuss the work of Geoff Bardwell and colleagues! This article discusses how inhalating ilicit drugs can lead to a variety of negative health outcomes, but are largely prohibited at supervised consumption sites. Women are underrepresented at supervised...
February 2022: Patient Perspectives on Choosing Buprenorphine Over Methadone in an Urban, Equal-Access System
Join us to discuss the work of Jan Gryczynski and colleagues! This article discusses how patient experiences and perspectives surrounding choosing buprenorphine over methadone in an urban setting were examined via qualitative and quantitative methods. The authors...
January 2022: Interaction and conflict between outreach workers and research officers in implementing collaborative action research in the field of harm reduction
Join us to discuss the work of Nicolas Khatmil and colleagues!This article discusses how frontline community partners feel when participating in research projects can greatly influence the study. This project interviewed harm reduction outreach workers who could...