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International journal on drug policy

Year: 2021
Articles in SafetyLit: 41

"I held on to the police's leg for mercy": Experiences of adversity, risk and harm among people who inject drugs during an anti-drug drive in Dhaka, Bangladesh

"Shabu is different": extrajudicial killings, death penalty, and 'methamphetamine exceptionalism' in the Philippines

'Alternative facts': public opinion surveys on the death penalty for drug offences in selected Asian countries

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

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

A qualitative study of a publicly funded pharmacy-dispensed naloxone program

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of take-home naloxone (THN) ownership and carriage

Addressing multiple overdoses: opportunities for prevention and innovation [response to letter]

An uphill battle: a case example of government policy and activist dissent on the death penalty for drug-related offences in Indonesia

Brief interventions to prevent excessive alcohol use in adolescents at low-risk presenting to Emergency Departments: Three-arm, randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness

Consumer discernment of fentanyl in illicit opioids confirmed by fentanyl test strips: lessons from a syringe services program in North Carolina

Criminal entrepreneurs as pioneers, intermediaries, and arbitrageurs in borderland economies

Deadly serious: the United Nations, drugs, and capital punishment in the 1980s

Developing explanatory models for life course shifts in the burden of substance use to inform future policy and practice

Examining the implementation of police-assisted referral programs for substance use disorder services in Massachusetts

Futures-oriented drugs policy research: events, trends, and speculating on what might become

High and highly bonded: fused football fans who use cocaine are most likely to be aggressive toward rivals

High occurrence of witnessing an opioid overdose in a sample of women who use heroin in Tanzania: implications for overdose prevention

Imagining a fentanyl future: some consequences of synthetic opioids replacing heroin

Increasing drug-related mortality rates over the last decade in Scotland are not just due to an ageing cohort: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study

Intentions, actions and outcomes: a follow up survey on harm reduction practices after using an English festival drug checking service

Killing in the name of the war on drugs [editorial]

Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG) for reducing health harms from non-medical cannabis use: a comprehensive evidence and recommendations update

Machine learning takes a village: assessing neighbourhood-level vulnerability for an overdose and infectious disease outbreak

Men's decrease and women's increase in harmful alcohol use from the 2014 to 2018 national surveys in Taiwan: a harbinger for an emerging national trend in East Asia?

Monitoring drug trends in the digital environment-new methods, challenges and the opportunities provided by automated approaches

Non-fatal opioid overdose, naloxone access, and naloxone training among people who recently used opioids or received opioid agonist treatment in Australia: the ETHOS Engage study

Pathways between COVID-19 public health responses and increasing overdose risks: a rapid review and conceptual framework

Perceived occupational risk of fentanyl exposure among law enforcement

Prevalence and correlates of multiple non-fatal opioid overdoses among people who inject drugs who utilise needle syringe programs in Australia

Restrictive opioid prescribing policies and evolving risk environments: a qualitative study of the perspectives of patients who experienced an accidental opioid overdose

Sharing data from research on illicit drug economies

Sociological investigations of human enhancement drugs: the case of microdosing psychedelics

State sanctioned killing in the name of drugs: laws, practice and conflicting trends in Asia

Tales of gender-based oppression and violence: risks and vulnerabilities of women who inject drugs (WWID) in Dhaka, Bangladesh

The impact of alcohol taxation changes on unrecorded alcohol consumption: a review and recommendations

The war on drugs in Southeast Asia as 'state vigilantism'

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

Understanding overdose incidents in Canadian federal custody

War-to-peace transitions and the behavioural legacies of civil war: a plea for looking beyond violence

We are the researched, the researchers, and the discounted: the experiences of drug user activists as researchers