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Completed Projects

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“The people who depended on us became
expendable”: Experiences of frontline workers with lived and living expertise of drug use during the COVID‑19 pandemic

May 2025

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Experiences of frontline workers with lived and living expertise of drug use during the COVID‑19 pandemic: Findings Summary

May 2025

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Experiencing grief and trauma in the ongoing syndemic: A narrative review and reflection from people with lived/living expertise of drug use and their allies

March 2024

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5th annual BC Substance Use Conference - Experiences of cumulative grief among people who use drugs

April 20, 2023

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Frontline workers & researchers co-creating knowledge in COVID-19 & the overdose crisis

October 7, 2021

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CRACKDOWN Podcast - Episode 23: Cop Free Future

April 2, 2021

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11th International Conference on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users - "I wish we could go a year without losing someone"

October 18, 2023

Photo by: Conor Ashleigh/INHSU, 2023

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CRACKDOWN Podcast - Episode 35: On the Clock

December 9, 2022

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Tips to more safely dispose of your needle for those without access to needle and syringe programs

Matt Bonn | April 13, 2021

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Storyvoice: (Re)Visualizing the overdose crisis: Stories from across Canada by activists with lived expertise of drug use

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Having a voice and saving lives: a qualitative survey on employment impacts of people with lived experience of drug use working in harm reduction

Presented by: Alexandra de Kiewet, Frank Crichlow, Michael Nurse, Sean LeBlanc, Tama Austin, Jade Boyd | March 2021

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Having a voice and saving lives: a qualitative survey on employment impacts of people with lived experience of drug use working in harm reduction

 January 2021

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"Having a voice and saving lives": A survey by and for poeple who use drugs and work in harm reduction

July 2019

Affiliated Research and Projects

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National operational guidance for the implementation of supervised consumption services

July 2023

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CONSENT IS

Consent Is is an art campaign bringing attention to gender-based violence, by women peer workers. 

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Addressing the syndemic of HIV, Hepatitis C, overdose, and COVID-19 among people who use drugs: The potential roles for decriminalization and safe supply

Co-authored by: Matthew Bonn, Adam Palayew, Sofia Bartlett, Thomas D Brothers, Natasha Touesnard & Mark Tyndall | 2020

Harm reduction safety during Covid

Harm reduction worker safety during the COVID-19 pandemic: national rapid guidance

Other national rapid guidance documents addressing urgent needs of people who use substances in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic are available in English and French at the CRISM website.

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Examining substance use services and treatment barriers and needs among People with Lived Experience (PWLE) in Ontario, Canada

Co-authored by: Cayley Russell, Farihah Ali, Frishta Nafeh, Sean LeBlanc, Sameer Imtiaz, Tara Elton-Marshall, Jürgen Rehm

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Prometheus Does Down

Presented at Harm Reduction International Conference in Australia | April 2023

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Substance-related acute toxicity deaths in Canada from 2016 to 2017: A review of coroner and medical examiner files

December 2022

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Supporting people who use substances in shelter settings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Other national rapid guidance documents addressing urgent needs of people who use substances in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic are available in English and French at the CRISM website.

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Changes in substance supply and use characteristics among people who use drugs (PWUD) during the COVID-19 global pandemic: A national qualitative assessment in Canada

Co-authored by: Farihah Ali, Cayley Russell, Frishta Nafen, Jürgen Rehm, Sean LeBlanc, Tara Elton-Marshall

External Resources

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Hear Us, See Us, Respect Us: Respecting the expertise of people who use drugs

Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs (CAPUD) and Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC) | 2021

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Research 101: A manifesto for ethical research in the Downtown Eastside

Co-authored by: Louise Boilevin, Jules Chapman, Lindsay Deane, Caroline Doerksen, Greg Fresz, DJ Joe, Nicolas Leech-Crier, Samona Marsh, Jim McLeod, Scott Neufeld, Steven Pham, Laura Shaver, Patrick Smith, Martin Steward, Dean Wilson, Phoenix Winter | 2019

We would like to acknowledge that the land we work on is the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island.

©2021 by CRISM People with Lived and Living Expertise of Drug Use National Working Group

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