Ardis B Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ardis B Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ardis B |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5076-4653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Enhancing Harm Reduction Through Drug Checking and Community Outreach: Feedback from People Who Use Drugs on Drug Supply Safety, Dissemination of Information, and Service Needs
The overdose crisis has significantly impacted public health, with high rates of overdose death exacerbated by the presence of potent synthetic opioids and novel psychoactive substances. Harm reduction strategies like drug checking services provide critical information to people who use drugs, enabling them to make informed decisions to reduce drug-related risks. The testRI project utilized toxicology testing and community-based outreach to devel…
“Once I started going… I had this central wheel hub”: Drivers of overdose prevention center engagement and connections to care in Rhode Island
BACKGROUND: The United States' first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center (OPC) opened in Rhode Island in January 2025. In addition to OPC services, the site offers co-located basic needs services, case management, healthcare, and substance use treatment. We aimed to understand clients' initial engagement with the OPC as well as their consequent service patterns. METHODS: Between May and August 2025, semi-structured interviews were conduct…
Adapting to changing risk environments: Examining overdose risk and socio-spatial patterns of unstably housed people who use drugs during converging public health crises
Background The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the US overdose crisis and disproportionately impacted unstably housed people who use drugs. Measures to address the pandemic within the context of crisis produced differential effects, particularly among people who use drugs. Examining how unstably housed people who use drugs adapted to shifting risk environments is imperative to responding to future crises.Methods Rapid ethnographic data was collecte…
‘I Wanna Know What I'm Putting in My Body’: Perceptions of Drug Checking Services and Supply Information Among People Who Use Drugs in Rhode Island
Experiences and perceptions of sexual health services among young gay and bisexual men who have sex with men in Rhode Island
Rhode Island has experienced an increasing burden of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, accounting for 83% of HIV diagnoses in 2021. This evaluation examined men who have sex with men's perceptions of the effectiveness, gaps, and needs of sexual health services. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 men who have sex with men in Rhode Island recruited fr…
Communicating Health Research With Plain Language
Although critical to enacting change, effectively communicating clinical and public health research results remains a challenge. In a webinar that occurred on December 7, 2023, a group of clinical and public health researchers and communications specialists convened to share their experiences using plain language materials to communicate research results. Herein, they provide practical guidance and case examples of lay summaries, infographics, da…
Considerations for the epidemiological evaluation of hyperlocal interventions: A case study of the New York City overdose prevention centers
“I Don’t Go Overboard”: Perceptions of Overdose Risk and Risk Reduction Strategies among People Who Use Drugs in Rhode Island
Background: North America experiencing an unprecedented overdose epidemic, with data estimating almost 110,000 overdose deaths occurring in 2022 in the United States (US). To address fatal overdoses in the US, community organizations and local health departments in some jurisdictions have expanded community distribution of naloxone, and increased overdose prevention education, and other harm reduction supplies and services (e.g., fentanyl test st…
‘Everywhere I call, there's nothing available’: Understanding the alcohol treatment landscape and needs among unstably housed people who use alcohol in Rhode Island
A qualitative study of reasons to use substances and substance use treatment experiences among transgender and gender diverse adults in Rhode Island
Motivation for substance use and interest in substance use treatment varied. • Substances were used to self-treat mental health concerns. • Multi-level barriers were experienced across substance use treatment types. • More TGD professionals of color are needed in substance use treatment settings. • Providers need training in care for TGD patients and referral processes
It gets you high as a kite but not unsick”: Characterizations of and responses to a changing local drug supply by people who use drugs in Rhode Island
Understanding the delivery of substance use treatment services to transgender and gender-diverse people: Findings from a mixed-methods study of healthcare professionals
Comprehensive testing and rapid dissemination of local drug supply surveillance data in Rhode Island
Perceptions of Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Therapy Among People Living with HIV Who Use Drugs and Service Providers: A Qualitative Analysis in Rhode Island
It's no foundation, there's no stabilization, you're just scattered: A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs
People who use drugs (PWUD) commonly experience housing instability due to intersecting structural vulnerabilities (e.g., drug prohibition, discriminatory housing policies), and prejudicial or illegal evictions are common. In Vancouver, Canada, evictions have proliferated in the Downtown Eastside, a historically low-income neighbourhood with high rates of drug use and housing instability, resulting in many PWUD being evicted into homelessness. Th…
A rapid ethnographic study of risk negotiation during the Covid-19 pandemic among unstably housed people who use drugs in Rhode Island
Drug use behaviors, trauma, and emotional affect following the overdose of a social network member: A qualitative investigation
Negotiating sex work and client interactions in the context of a fentanyl-related overdose epidemic
Despite awareness of the role of drug use in shaping sex worker/client interactions, these dynamics remain poorly understood in the context of illicit fentanyl-driven overdose epidemics. This study examined sex workers' experiences negotiating client interactions amidst a toxic drug supply in Vancouver, Canada. Findings draw from two ethnographic studies. The first, conducted between December 2016 and May 2017, examined the rapid implementation o…
You need money to get high, and that's the easiest and fastest way: ” A typology of sex work and health behaviours among people who inject drugs
Progress and remaining challenges to address hepatitis C, other infectious diseases, and drug-related harms to improve the health of people who use drugs
That’s what I’m supposed to do at work ”: Gendered labor, self-care, and overdose risk among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Through rapid ethnography undertaken in Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside - one of Canada's overdose epicenters - this article examines how gendered expectations of labor shape overdose risk for structurally vulnerable women and gender diverse people who use drugs. Drawing on two participant narratives, we explore how structural, symbolic, and everyday violence frame the lives of women and gender diverse people who use drugs in ways that driv…
Assessing the impact of food insecurity on HIV medication adherence in the context of an integrated care programme for people living with HIV in Vancouver, Canada
Objective: Food insecurity, or self-reports of inadequate food access due to limited financial resources, remains prevalent among people living with HIV (PLHIV). We examined the impact of food insecurity on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) adherence within an integrated care programme that provides services to PLHIV, including two meals per day. Design: Adjusted OR (aOR) were estimated by generalized estimating equations, quantifying the…
Home and health among people living with HIV who use drugs: A qualitative study
Women's utilization of housing-based overdose prevention sites in Vancouver, Canada: An ethnographic study
Addressing co-occurring public health emergencies: The importance of naloxone distribution in the era of Covid-19
Peer worker involvement in low-threshold supervised consumption facilities in the context of an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada
The intersectional risk environment of people who use drugs
Surviving the housing crisis: Social violence and the production of evictions among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Navigating identity, territorial stigma, and HIV care services in Vancouver, Canada: A qualitative study
It’s Helped Me a Lot, Just Like to Stay Alive”: A Qualitative Analysis of Outcomes of a Novel Hydromorphone Tablet Distribution Program in Vancouver, Canada
Addressing Intersecting Housing and Overdose Crises in Vancouver, Canada: Opportunities and Challenges from a Tenant-Led Overdose Response Intervention in Single Room Occupancy Hotels
It's no foundation, there's no stabilization, you're just scattered: A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs
People who use drugs (PWUD) commonly experience housing instability due to intersecting structural vulnerabilities (e.g., drug prohibition, discriminatory housing policies), and prejudicial or illegal evictions are common. In Vancouver, Canada, evictions have proliferated in the Downtown Eastside, a historically low-income neighbourhood with high rates of drug use and housing instability, resulting in many PWUD being evicted into homelessness. Th…
(Re)shaping the self: An ethnographic study of the embodied and spatial practices of women who use drugs
Understanding the delivery of substance use treatment services to transgender and gender-diverse people: Findings from a mixed-methods study of healthcare professionals
Understanding the pervasiveness of trauma within a housing facility for people living with HIV
Trauma exposure is highly prevalent among marginalized people living with HIV (PLHIV). Trauma influences experiences in environments where PLHIV reside and access support services, in addition to impacting mental and physical health. This qualitative study of 24 PLHIV examined how trauma and socio-structural inequities shaped participants’ experiences living in a supportive housing facility for PLHIV, impacted health-related outcomes, and affecte…
Hegel's Unresolved Contradiction: Experience, Philosophy, and the Irrationality of Nature
Cet article étudie lafaçon dont Hegel élabore sa conception des rapports entre la pensée et la nature dans la Phénoménologie de l'esprit. L'examen montre que 1) Hegel étend le concept de raison pour y inclure i'indépendance de la nature à l'endroit de la pensée rationnelle, 2) cette indépendance se révèle dans le donné contingent de l'empiricité, 3) le concept étendu de raison détermine et justifie les présuppositions de la logique hégélienne, et…
The Secular is Sacred: Platonism and Thomism in Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology
The Platonism of Marsilio Ficino: A Study of His "Phaedrus" Commentary, Its Sources and Genesis . Michael J. B. Allen
Hegel's Unresolved Contradiction: Experience, Philosophy, and the Irrationality of Nature
Cet article étudie lafaçon dont Hegel élabore sa conception des rapports entre la pensée et la nature dans la Phénoménologie de l'esprit. L'examen montre que 1) Hegel étend le concept de raison pour y inclure i'indépendance de la nature à l'endroit de la pensée rationnelle, 2) cette indépendance se révèle dans le donné contingent de l'empiricité, 3) le concept étendu de raison détermine et justifie les présuppositions de la logique hégélienne, et…
Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Dialectical Justification of Philosophy’s First Principles
Hegel's philosophy depends on the answer to a fundamental question: why assume that the abstract structures and necessities of pure thought reveal anything at all about the varied and mutable realm of real life experience? In her study of Hegel's Phenomenology , Ardis Collins examines the way Hegel interprets the Phenomenology of Spirit as an answer to this question and in the process invents a proof procedure that does not depend on unquestioned…
Navigating identity, territorial stigma, and HIV care services in Vancouver, Canada: A qualitative study
We’re giving you something so we get something in return”: Perspectives on research participation and compensation among people living with HIV who use drugs
Gendered violence and overdose prevention sites: A rapid ethnographic study during an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada
Factors associated with low neighborhood cohesion among women living with HIV impacted by social-structural inequities in British Columbia
Built and social environments, including one's perception of their environment, are important determinants of health. The intersection of gender and HIV status may complicate the role of neighborhood cohesion in safety, personal well-being, and health outcomes for populations impacted by social and structural inequities. Among women in particular, social cohesion within the neighborhood they reside in may have a greater influence on health outcom…
Harnessing the language of overdose prevention to advance evidence-based responses to the opioid crisis
Surviving the housing crisis: Social violence and the production of evictions among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Addressing Intersecting Housing and Overdose Crises in Vancouver, Canada: Opportunities and Challenges from a Tenant-Led Overdose Response Intervention in Single Room Occupancy Hotels
Housing in crisis: A qualitative study of the socio-legal contexts of residential evictions in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Policing space in the overdose crisis: A rapid ethnographic study of the impact of law enforcement practices on the effectiveness of overdose prevention sites
North America is in the midst of an overdose crisis. In some of the hardest hit areas of Canada, local responses have included the implementation of low-threshold drug consumption facilities, termed Overdose Prevention Sites (OPS). In Vancouver, Canada the crisis and response occur in an urban terrain that is simultaneously impacted by a housing crisis in which formerly 'undesirable' areas are rapidly gentrifying, leading to demands to more close…
Gender and the overdose crisis in North America: Moving past gender-neutral approaches in the public health response
The intersectional risk environment of people who use drugs
Peer worker involvement in low-threshold supervised consumption facilities in the context of an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada
That’s what I’m supposed to do at work ”: Gendered labor, self-care, and overdose risk among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Through rapid ethnography undertaken in Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside - one of Canada's overdose epicenters - this article examines how gendered expectations of labor shape overdose risk for structurally vulnerable women and gender diverse people who use drugs. Drawing on two participant narratives, we explore how structural, symbolic, and everyday violence frame the lives of women and gender diverse people who use drugs in ways that driv…
Assessing the impact of food insecurity on HIV medication adherence in the context of an integrated care programme for people living with HIV in Vancouver, Canada
Objective: Food insecurity, or self-reports of inadequate food access due to limited financial resources, remains prevalent among people living with HIV (PLHIV). We examined the impact of food insecurity on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) adherence within an integrated care programme that provides services to PLHIV, including two meals per day. Design: Adjusted OR (aOR) were estimated by generalized estimating equations, quantifying the…
Home and health among people living with HIV who use drugs: A qualitative study
Women's utilization of housing-based overdose prevention sites in Vancouver, Canada: An ethnographic study
Addressing co-occurring public health emergencies: The importance of naloxone distribution in the era of Covid-19
(Re)shaping the self: An ethnographic study of the embodied and spatial practices of women who use drugs
It’s Helped Me a Lot, Just Like to Stay Alive”: A Qualitative Analysis of Outcomes of a Novel Hydromorphone Tablet Distribution Program in Vancouver, Canada
Understanding the pervasiveness of trauma within a housing facility for people living with HIV
Trauma exposure is highly prevalent among marginalized people living with HIV (PLHIV). Trauma influences experiences in environments where PLHIV reside and access support services, in addition to impacting mental and physical health. This qualitative study of 24 PLHIV examined how trauma and socio-structural inequities shaped participants’ experiences living in a supportive housing facility for PLHIV, impacted health-related outcomes, and affecte…
Negotiating sex work and client interactions in the context of a fentanyl-related overdose epidemic
Despite awareness of the role of drug use in shaping sex worker/client interactions, these dynamics remain poorly understood in the context of illicit fentanyl-driven overdose epidemics. This study examined sex workers' experiences negotiating client interactions amidst a toxic drug supply in Vancouver, Canada. Findings draw from two ethnographic studies. The first, conducted between December 2016 and May 2017, examined the rapid implementation o…
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (32 works) · Medicine (32 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (16 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (15 works) · Public health (15 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Environmental health (13 works) · Psychiatry (13 works)