Jozaghi Ehsan
UBC Faculty of Dentistry, Nobel Biocare Oral Health Centre, 2151 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Health Justice. 2022 Jul 23;10(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s40352-022-00189-3.
We are currently witnessing an ongoing drug overdose death epidemic in many nations linked to the distribution of illegally manufactured potent synthetic opioids. While many health policy makers and researchers have focused on the root causes and possible solutions to the current crisis, there has been little focus on the power of advocacy and community action by people who use drugs (PWUDs). Specifically, there has been no research on the role of PWUDs in engaging and influencing mass media opinion.
By relying on one of the longest and largest peer-run drug user advocacy groups in the world, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), newspaper articles, television reports, and magazines that VANDU or its members have been directly involved in will be identified via two data bases (the Canadian Newsstream & Google News). The news articles and videos related to the health of PWUDs and issues affecting PWUDs from 1997 to the end of 2020 will be analyzed qualitatively using Nvivo software.
As our communities are entering another phase of the drug overdose epidemic, acknowledging and partnering with PWUDs could play an integral part in advancing the goals of harm reduction, treatment, and human rights.
目前，我们正目睹许多国家因非法制造的强效合成阿片类药物的流通而出现持续的药物过量死亡流行情况。虽然许多卫生政策制定者和研究人员专注于当前危机的根源和可能的解决方案，但很少有人关注吸毒者（PWUDs）的宣传和社区行动的力量。具体而言，尚未有关于吸毒者在参与和影响大众媒体舆论方面作用的研究。
通过依靠世界上运营时间最长、规模最大的由同伴运营的吸毒者宣传组织之一——温哥华地区吸毒者网络（VANDU），将通过两个数据库（加拿大新闻流和谷歌新闻）识别VANDU或其成员直接参与的报纸文章、电视报道和杂志。将使用Nvivo软件对1997年至2020年底与吸毒者健康及影响吸毒者的问题相关的新闻文章和视频进行定性分析。
随着我们的社区进入药物过量流行的另一个阶段，承认吸毒者并与他们合作可能在推进减少伤害、治疗和人权目标方面发挥不可或缺的作用。
