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Living with addiction: The perspectives of drug using and non-using individuals about sharing space in a hospital setting

Abstract

Hospitals seem to be places where harm reduction approaches could have great benefit but few have responded to the needs of people who use drugs. Drawing on recent theoretical contributions to harm reduction from health geography, we examine how the implementation of harm reduction is shaped by space and contested understandings of place and health. We examine how drug use and harm reduction approaches pose challenges and offer opportunities in …

Authors

Strike C; Guta A; de Prinse K; Switzer S; Carusone SC

Journal

International Journal of Drug Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 640–649

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

May 2014

DOI

10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.02.012

ISSN

0955-3959