PHS Community Services Society

Recent papers from PHS Community Services Society

1. Safer supply program enrollment motivations and medication preferences among people who use drugs in Vancouver, CanadaInternational Journal of Drug Policy · 2026
2. Participant perspectives on a safe supply program in Vancouver, Canada: impacts, satisfaction and improvement prioritiesHarm Reduction Journal · 2026
3. A qualitative evaluation of a fentanyl patch safer supply program in Vancouver, CanadaInternational Journal of Drug Policy · 2024
4. Factors associated with primary healthcare provider access among trans and non-binary immigrants, refugees, and newcomers in CanadaJournal of Migration and Health · 2024
5. Translating the lived experience of illicit drinkers into program guidance for cannabis substitution: Experiences from the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program StudyInternational Journal of Drug Policy · 2023
6. “COVID just kind of opened a can of whoop-ass”: The rapid growth of safer supply prescribing during the pandemic documented through an environmental scan of addiction and harm reduction services in CanadaInternational Journal of Drug Policy · 2022
7. “If I knew I could get that every hour instead of alcohol, I would take the cannabis”: need and feasibility of cannabis substitution implementation in Canadian managed alcohol programsHarm Reduction Journal · 2021
8. Seeking shelter: homelessness and COVID-19FACETS · 2021
9. Breaking the cycle of survival drinking: insights from a non-residential, peer-initiated and peer-run managed alcohol programDrugs Education Prevention and Policy · 2020
10. HIV leadership programming attendance is associated with PrEP and PEP awareness among young, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, CanadaBMC Public Health · 2019
11. “Condoms are … like public transit. It’s something you want everyone else to take”: Perceptions and use of condoms among HIV negative gay men in Vancouver, Canada in the era of biomedical and seroadaptive preventionBMC Public Health · 2019
12. Predictors of Facebook User Engagement With Health-Related Content for Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men: Content AnalysisJMIR Public Health and Surveillance · 2018
13. The lessons learned from the fentanyl overdose crises in British Columbia, CanadaAddiction · 2017
14. Gay Men’s Understanding and Education of New HIV Prevention Technologies in Vancouver, CanadaQualitative Health Research · 2017
15. The Washington Needle Depot: fitting healthcare to injection drug users rather than injection drug users to healthcare: moving from a syringe exchange to syringe distribution modelHarm Reduction Journal · 2010
16. Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control BoardHarm Reduction Journal · 2008
17. Closed to reason: time for accountability for the International Narcotic Control BoardHarm Reduction Journal · 2007