{"id":18105,"date":"2022-03-07T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugpolicy.ca\/?p=18105"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:28:58","slug":"imagine-safer-supply-envisioning-an-ideal-safe-supply-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.drugpolicy.ca\/fr\/imagine-safer-supply-envisioning-an-ideal-safe-supply-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine safer supply: envisioning an ideal safe supply program, from available substances to the staff and setting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I never made it to college or university. As a matter of fact, I never even completed high school. So the idea that I could one day be a skilled and experienced mixed-methods researcher, get paid for my knowledge and respected when I spoke, and co-author published papers and articles far exceeded my modest dreams. I had participated in research in the past as an interviewee\u2014giving my perspective on a variety of subjects\u2014but never from the investigative side. As you can imagine, when I was offered the opportunity to train and work as a qualitative researcher I was thrilled and jumped at the chance, particularly as the subject was one I was personally and professionally invested in: safe(r) supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“This project laid a path for me. Now all I have to do is walk it!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine Safer Supply<\/strong> is a massive undertaking\u2014a multi-provincial qualitative research project seeking to explore the attitudes and perceptions people have about safer supply. We spoke to both people who identify as substance users and people who were primarily involved in frontline service provision to drug users. We found that there is less of a hard line dividing these two groups than we had expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started with the project as a member of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) in the summer of 2020. The team consists of the principal investigators, research associate, research assistants, and our community advisory team\u2014the group with which I did most of my work on the project. Our committee had members with lived and living experience of drug use and\/or the provision of frontline services for people who use drugs, as these were the two groups upon which our qualitative research was focused. Amongst our team, we found a similar level of crossover between the user\/service provider camps as we did among the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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