Journal article
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