Reports + Research

⬤ Vancouver’s Alcohol Knowledge Exchange: Lessons Learned from Creating a Peer-Involved Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2023)

Bailey et al. (Harm Reduction Journal)

⬤ Final Financial Report for OUR STREETS Services (2022)

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)

⬤ We Are Somebody: Drug User Liberation Movement from the Grassroots (2021)

BC and Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors

⬤ The Synthetic Opioid Epidemic and the Need for Mental Health Support for First Responders Who Intervene in Overdose Cases (2018)

Jozaghi et al. (Canadian Journal of Public Health)

⬤ Activism and Scientific Research: 20 Years of Community Action by The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (2018)

Jozaghi et al. (Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy)

⬤ Back to the Core: A Network Approach to Bolster Harm Reduction among Persons Who Inject Drugs (2018)

Bouchard et al. (International Journal of Drug Policy)

⬤ “They Treated Me Like Crap and I Know It Was Because I Was Native”: The Healthcare Experiences of Aboriginal Peoples Living in Vancouver’s Inner City (2017)

Goodman et al. (Social Science & Medicine)

⬤ Ethics, Research, and Advocacy: The Experiences of the NAOMI Patients Association in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2017)

Boyd et al. (University of Toronto Press)

⬤ Telling Our Stories: Heroin-Assisted Treatment and SNAP Activism in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver (2017)

Boyd et al. (Harm Reduction Journal)

⬤ Peer Engagement Principles and Best Practices: A Guide for BC Health Authorities and Other Providers (2017)

Greer et al. (Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies)

⬤ The Lessons Learned from The Fentanyl Overdose Crises in British Columbia, Canada (2017)

Thomson et al. (Addiction)

⬤ Missing the Trends in the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis: The Need for Immediate Intervention in Small and Rural Communities (2017)

Ehsan Jozaghi and Samona Marsh (Canadian Journal of Public Health)

⬤ Community-Based Participatory Research in a Heavily Researched Inner City Neighbourhood: Perspectives of People Who Use Drugs on Their Experiences as Peer Researchers (2017)

Damon et al. (Social Science & Medicine)

⬤ Peer-Engagement and its Role in Reducing the Risky Behavior among Crack and Methamphetamine Smokers of the Downtown Eastside Community of Vancouver, Canada (2016)

Jozaghi et al. (Harm Reduction Journal)

⬤ Results of a Participatory Needs Assessment Demonstrate an Opportunity to Involve People Who Use Alcohol in Drug User Activism and Harm Reduction (2016)

Crabtree et al. (Harm Reduction Journal)

⬤ “About Nothing Without Us”: A Comparative Analysis of Autonomous Organizing Among People Who Use Drugs and Psychiatrized Groups in Canada (2016)

Christopher B. R. Smith (Intersectionalities)

⬤ Peer Engagement in Harm Reduction Strategies and Services: Findings from a BC Case Study, 2010-2014 (2016)

Greer et al. (BMC Public Health)

⬤ Life Won’t Wait: Naloxone and Drug Overdose Prevention in British Columbia (2015)

Jordan Allen Westfall (Simon Fraser University)

⬤ “We Need Somewhere to Smoke Crack”: An Ethnographic Study of an Unsanctioned Safer Smoking Room in Vancouver, Canada (2015)

McNeil et al. (International Journal of Drug Policy)

⬤ “It’s Powerful to Gather”: A Community-Driven Study of Drug Users’ and Illicit Drinkers’ Priorities for Harm Reduction and Health Promotion in British Columbia, Canada (2015)

Alexis Crabtree (University of British Columbia)

⬤ Exploring the Role of an Unsanctioned, Supervised Peer Driven Injection Facility in Reducing HIV and Hepatitis C Infections in People that Require Assistance during Injection (2015)

Ehsan Jozaghi and VANDU (Health and Justice)

⬤ The Role of Peer Drug Users’ Social Networks and Harm Reduction Programs in Changing the Dynamics of Life for People Who Use Drugs in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada (2015)

Ehsann Jozaghi (Simon Fraser University)

⬤ “People Knew They Could Come Here To Get Help”: An Ethnographic Study of Assisted Injection Practices at a Peer-Run ‘unsanctioned’ Supervised Drug Consumption Room in a Canadian Setting (2014)

McNeil et al. (AIDS and Behaviour)

⬤ A Cost-Benefit/Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of an Unsanctioned Supervised Smoking Facility in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada (2014)

Ehsan Jozaghi and VANDU (Harm Reduction Journal)

⬤ Negotiating Place and Gendered Violence in Canada’s Largest Open Drug Scene (2014)

McNeil et al. (International Journal of Drug Policy)

⬤ Jaywalking to Jail: Capitalism, Mass Incarceration and Social Control on the Streets of Vancouver (2014)

Aiyanas Ormond (Radical Criminology)

⬤ Barriers to Safer Injection Practices Faced by People Who Use Injection Drugs, in Vancouver and Abbotsford, B.C. (2013)

Grant et al. (UBC Medical Journal)

⬤ ‘On the Same Level’: Facilitators’ Experiences Running a Drug User-Led Safer Injecting Education Campaign (2013)

Callon et al. (Harm Reduction Journal)

⬤ The Impact of Environmental Factors on Risk, Harm, And Health Care Access Among People Who Inject Drugs (2013)

Ryan McNeil (University of British Columbia)

⬤ The Injection Support Team: A Peer-Driven Program to Address Unsafe Injecting in a Canadian Setting (2012)

Small et al. (Substance Use & Misuse)

⬤ NAOMI Research Survivors: Experiences and Recommendations (2012)

North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI)

⬤ B.C. Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program: A Qualitative Systems Review – Summary Report (2011)

Tessa Parkes and Dan Reist (Centre for Addictions Research B.C.)

⬤ VANDU MANIFESTO for a Drug User Liberation Movement (2010)

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)

⬤ B.C. Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program: A Qualitative Systems Review – Draft (2010)

Tessa Parkes (Centre for Addictions Research B.C.)

⬤ We’re All Pedestrians: Final Report of the Downtown Eastside Pedestrian Safety Project (2010)

Lani Russwurm and Don Buchanan (VANDU)

⬤ Harm Reduction: the Advocacy of Science and the Science of Advocacy (2010)

Gerry Stimson

⬤ Methadone Maintenance Treatment in British Columbia, 1996-2008 – Analysis and Recommendations (2010)

Centre for Addictions Research B.C

⬤ Drug Situation in Vancouver Report (2009)

Urban Health Research Initiative of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

⬤ Smoking of Crack Cocaine as a Risk Factor for HIV Infection Among People Who Use Injection Drugs (2009)

DeBeck et al. (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

⬤ Cocaine Cutting Agents: Do You Know What You’re Snorting? (2009)

Donald F. Legatt (University of Alberta)

⬤ Incarceration Not Found to Deter Drug Use (2009)

B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

⬤ Ibogaine: A Story of My Life and Years (2009)

Howard S. Lotsof (Dora Weiner Foundation)

⬤ Evaluation Report: Pacific Summit on Drug User Health (2009)

Thomas Kerr and Andrea Krusi

⬤ Health Status of People Who Use Illicit Drugs in British Columbia (2009)

VANDU (Pacific Summit on Drug User Health)

⬤ Economic Fact Sheet: Facts and Figures Relating to Illegal Drugs (2008)

Mark Haden (Vancouver Coastal Health)

⬤ Modelling An Effective Process to Control Bedbugs in the Downtown Eastside: VANDU Pilot Project Phase II (2008)

Anne O’Neil (VANDU)

⬤ The Journey to Compassionate Care (2007)

Susan C. Boyd

⬤ Drug Users’ Charter of Rights (2007)

Russell Newcombe (Lifeline, U.K)

⬤ A 25 Year Quagmire: The War on Drugs and its Impact on American Society (2007)

Mark Mauer and Ryan S. King (Sentencing Project)

⬤ Drug Busts – Data from Police Reports of Drug Offences (1997-2007)

Statistics Canada Police Reports

⬤ Prison Needle Exchange: Review of the Evidence (2006)

Public Health Agency of Canada

⬤ Harm Reduction by a ‘User-Run’ Organization: A Case Study of VANDU (2006)

Kerr et al. (International Journal of Drug Policy)

⬤ Speaking Truth to Power: The Role of Drug Users in Influencing Municipal Drug Policy (2006)

Bud Osborn and Will Small (International Journal of Drug Policy)

⬤ Vancouver Drug Users’ Group Assists Users with Injecting in Order to Reduce HIV Transmission (2005)

Drug Reform Coordination Network

⬤ Harm Reduction Activism: A Case Study of an Unsanctioned User-Run Safe Injection Site (2004)

Kerr et al. (Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review)

⬤ Evaluation of the Supervised Injection Site: Year One Summary (2004)

British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

⬤ Creating Vectors of Disease Prevention: Empowering Networks of Drug Users (2004)

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)

⬤ Abusing the User: Police Misconduct, Harm Reduction and HIV/AIDS in Vancouver (2003)

Joanne Csete and Jonathan Cohen (HRW)

⬤ CHASE Annual Report – Executive Summary (2003)

Community Health and Safety Evaluation (CHASE)

⬤ A Community Action Program Year End Report (2003)

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)

⬤ BC Coroners Service: Database Figures for British Columbia Illicit Drug Overdoses (1995 – 2001)

Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General

⬤ Responding to an Emergency: A Case Study of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (2001)

Kerr et al. (Health Canada – Hepatitis C Division)

⬤ The Injection Support Team: A Peer-Driven Program to Address Unsafe Injecting in a Canadian Setting

Small W, Wood E, Tobin D, Rikley J, Lapushinsky D, Kerr T. 
Substance Use & Misuse, 2012; 47(5): 491–501.

⬤ An External Evaluation of a Peer-Run Outreach-Based Syringe Exchange in Vancouver

Hayashi K, Wood E, Wiebe L, Qi J, Kerr T.
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2010; 21(5): 418-421.

⬤ A Description of a Peer-Run Supervised Injection Site for Injection Drug Users

Kerr T, Oleson M, Tyndall MW, Montaner J, Wood E.
Journal of Urban Health, 2005; 82(2): 267-275.

⬤ An External Evaluation of a Peer-Run “Unsanctioned” Syringe Exchange Program

Wood E, Kerr T, Spittal PM, Small W, Tyndall MW, O’Shaughnessy MV, Schechter MT.
Journal of Urban Health, 2003; 80(3): 455-464.

⬤ Straight Issues: Jenny Kwan Wants PM to Back Off Supervised-Injection Site

Charlie Smith, The Georgia Straight, June 5, 2008

⬤ Fighter for Addicts Ready to Quit: Ann Livingston of VANDU is Wearied by Death

Sarah Ripplinger, The Tyee, Dec. 13, 2007

⬤ Activists Plan ‘Safe Site’ for Drug Smokers

Monte Paulsen, The Tyee, Feb. 5, 2007

⬤ New Injection Sites Stalled

Matthew Burrows, The Georgia Straight, Sept. 21, 2006

⬤ An Island Called Insite

Elaine Briere, The Tyee, Sept. 8, 2006

⬤ Where Carla and Wayne Shoot Up

Elaine Briere, The Tyee, Sept. 7, 2006

⬤ Injection Site Gets Reprieve

Charlie Smith, The Georgia Straight, Sept. 1, 2006

⬤ Cop’s Report States How Much Drug Users Spend

Charlie Smith, The Georgia Straight, Oct. 14, 2004

⬤ Baffling Brain Ailment Hits Heroin Smokers

Charlie Smith, The Georgia Straight, Jan. 21, 2004

⬤ Militants Opened Safe Injection Site 3 Weeks Ago

Frances Bula, Vancouver Sun, April 30, 2003

⬤ Four Pillars Drug Strategy

City of Vancouver