Jade Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jade Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jade |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7919-5995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Displacement and the disruption of drug use patterns and risks: Experiences of people living with HIV in two urban neighbourhoods
Gender differences in the association between housing status and violence among people who report exposure to benzodiazepines
BACKGROUND: Benzodiazepine exposure through the contaminated unregulated drug supply is associated with heightened risk of violent victimization, particularly for women. It is critical to identify the structural factors that intersect with drug toxicity and condition vulnerability to violence. As such, we conducted a gender-based analysis of the impacts of stable housing on violence among a sample of people exposed to benzodiazepines. METHODS: Us…
Haunted houses: Using photovoice to understand emotional geographies in single room occupancy housing
Confiscations, public health obstructions, and perpetual displacement: Experiences and perspectives on urban law enforcement practices during a period of “recriminalization” among people who use crimi…
Our findings illustrate how harmful law enforcement practices that target people who use criminalized drugs, particularly those relying on public spaces for survival, persisted during the evolving drug policy periods. Together, these law enforcement practices along with the lack of understanding regarding the shifting Decriminalization Pilot, may have undermined the potential success of a policy dedicated to decriminalizing drug possession in BC
‘It just doesn't stop’: Perspectives of women who use drugs on increased overdoses during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
A qualitative study exploring motives for the transition from injecting to smoking drugs in Vancouver, British Columbia
Basically every safety protocol we have in place to protect against overdose, parents can't access”: Mothers who use unregulated drugs’ experiences of dual public health emergencies
While mothers and their experiences are heterogeneous, gendered distinctions impact provision and experience of health care, harm reduction and social supports. Mothers who use drugs must navigate health and care responsibilities, exacerbated by pandemic-related health barriers, while simultaneously inhabiting an unremitting state of fear of punitive measures or postapprehension despair. The continued social exclusion of mothers who use drugs, pr…
Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy
Research Summary On January 31, 2023, British Columbia (BC) launched a 3‐year pilot initiative decriminalizing the possession of up to 2.5 g of select illegal drugs. The policy aims to reduce stigma, address racial disparities in drug law enforcement, and improve police relations with people who use drugs (PWUD). As part of a national evaluation, we conducted qualitative interviews with 100 PWUD who reported using drugs at least three times a wee…
Reimagining subjectivities in place: Necropolitical logics of safer supply and housing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
The decriminalization of illicit drugs in British Columbia: A national evaluation protocol
This evaluation will draw on implementation science research practices to evaluate and understand the full impacts of this novel drug policy experiment. Results will be widely disseminated through manuscripts, reports, presentations, and infographics, which will be adapted and tailored for specific audiences. The protocol identifies several anticipated challenges and limitations. This evaluation's evidence-based findings will be poised to offer p…
Using drugs alone in single room occupancy housing: Understanding environmental drivers of overdose risk
The perspectives of street-involved youth who use drugs regarding the acceptability and feasibility of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: A qualitative study
Street-involved youth who use drugs (YWUD) face an elevated risk of HIV acquisition and represent a key population for HIV prevention initiatives, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). However, little is known regarding the acceptability and feasibility of PrEP uptake and adherence among this multiply-marginalized population. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 24 street-involved YWUD (ages 17-24) to examine their pers…
Challenges of implementing safer supply programs in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis
Safer supply pilot programs in Canada face multiple inner and outer implementation challenges. Given the potential role of safer supply programs in addressing the drug toxicity crisis in Canada and the possibility of future scale-up, services should be well-supported during their implementation phases. Refining service provision within safer supply programs based on the feedback and experiences of clients and program administrators is warranted, …
Women's experiences in injectable opioid agonist treatment programs in Vancouver, Canada
(Re)situating expertise in community-based overdose response: Insights from an ethnographic study of overdose prevention sites (OPS) in Vancouver, Canada
Situating the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
This article centers on the nonprofit landscape in Vancouver, Canada, a city that occupies the territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, which have never been ceded to the colonial occupation of Canada. Vancouver has a competitive nonprofit field, with an estimated 1600+ nonprofits operating within city limits. This descriptive review starts by defining what a nonprofit industria…
We just don’t have the space for it”: Geographies of survival and spatial triage in overdose prevention sites
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…
Mothers Who Use Drugs: Closing the Gaps in Harm Reduction Response Amidst the Dual Epidemics of Overdose and Violence in a Canadian Urban Setting
Objectives. To identify key gaps in overdose prevention interventions for mothers who use drugs and the paradoxical impact of institutional practices that can increase overdose risk in the context of punitive drug policies and a toxic drug supply. Methods. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 40 women accessing 2 women-only, low-barrier supervised consumption sites in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, between 2017 and 2019. Ou…
Implementation of Safe Supply Alternatives During Intersecting Covid-19 and Overdose Health Emergencies in British Columbia, Canada, 2021
Objectives. To explore the implementation and effectiveness of the British Columbia, Canada, risk mitigation guidelines among people who use drugs, focusing on how experiences with the illicit drug supply shaped motivations to seek prescription alternatives and the subsequent impacts on overdose vulnerability. Methods. From February to July 2021, we conducted qualitative interviews with 40 people who use drugs in British Columbia, Canada, and who…
Beyond co-production: The construction of drug checking knowledge in a Canadian supervised injection facility
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…
I couldn't live with killing one of my friends or anybody”: A rapid ethnographic study of drug sellers’ use of drug checking
Essential work, precarious labour: The need for safer and equitable harm reduction work in the era of Covid-19
And we just have to keep going: Task shifting and the production of burnout among overdose response workers with lived experience
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
Producing Vancouver's (hetero)normative nightscape
The article argues, through an examination of Vancouver's entertainment district as an actively produced ‘civilizing’ space dominated by private enterprise, that it is important to understand the ‘mainstream’ as a grounded site which produces, maintains and reiterates the moral contours of heterosexuality (among other things) within the city. Nightclubs in particular, experienced as spaces of hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity, offer a prime ex…
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
And we just have to keep going: Task shifting and the production of burnout among overdose response workers with lived experience
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…
Implementation of Safe Supply Alternatives During Intersecting Covid-19 and Overdose Health Emergencies in British Columbia, Canada, 2021
Objectives. To explore the implementation and effectiveness of the British Columbia, Canada, risk mitigation guidelines among people who use drugs, focusing on how experiences with the illicit drug supply shaped motivations to seek prescription alternatives and the subsequent impacts on overdose vulnerability. Methods. From February to July 2021, we conducted qualitative interviews with 40 people who use drugs in British Columbia, Canada, and who…
(Re)shaping the self: An ethnographic study of the embodied and spatial practices of women who use drugs
Mothers Who Use Drugs: Closing the Gaps in Harm Reduction Response Amidst the Dual Epidemics of Overdose and Violence in a Canadian Urban Setting
Objectives. To identify key gaps in overdose prevention interventions for mothers who use drugs and the paradoxical impact of institutional practices that can increase overdose risk in the context of punitive drug policies and a toxic drug supply. Methods. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 40 women accessing 2 women-only, low-barrier supervised consumption sites in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, between 2017 and 2019. Ou…
A Low-Barrier and Comprehensive Community-Based Harm-Reduction Site in Vancouver, Canada
“The Molson” is a low-barrier, peer-staffed, supervised consumption site located in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to overdose response, this site offers drug checking and a colocated injectable hydromorphone treatment program, and it distributes tablet and liquid hydromorphone to service users at high risk of overdose. Our evaluation suggests benefits of this program in creating service continuums and preventing overdose deaths. From September 2…
You Bring Great Masculinity and Truth”: Sexuality, whiteness, and the regulation of the male body in motion
This study contributes to analyses of how heterosexuality and whiteness work together in the embodied social practice of dance and the representational realm of television. It does so by attempting to destabilize theories of sexual difference dependent upon the concept of a stable, "natural," and unitary body by highlighting the representational work that underpins heteronormative (white) masculinity within the first season of the syndicated real…
Negotiating space & drug use in emergency shelters with peer witness injection programs within the context of an overdose crisis: A qualitative study
I go to dance, right?’: Representation/sensation on the gendered dance floor
This article explores a group of young adults’ experiences of social dancing in the Eastside of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Drawing from critical and feminist qualitative methodological approaches as well as dance studies, the ethnography research privileges participants’ embodied knowledge of dancing in particular nightlife settings--small alternative spaces, rather than the city’s more mainstream, big business dance clubs. Dance’s double-bind, as bo…
Dance, culture, and popular film
This article explores the dancing body as shaped through the dynamics of race, class, and gender as well as through the tensions between popular and classical dance.1 Specifically, it focuses on th
Reimagining subjectivities in place: Necropolitical logics of safer supply and housing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Beyond co-production: The construction of drug checking knowledge in a Canadian supervised injection facility
Dance, culture, and popular film
This article explores the dancing body as shaped through the dynamics of race, class, and gender as well as through the tensions between popular and classical dance.1 Specifically, it focuses on th
Producing Vancouver's (hetero)normative nightscape
The article argues, through an examination of Vancouver's entertainment district as an actively produced ‘civilizing’ space dominated by private enterprise, that it is important to understand the ‘mainstream’ as a grounded site which produces, maintains and reiterates the moral contours of heterosexuality (among other things) within the city. Nightclubs in particular, experienced as spaces of hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity, offer a prime ex…
I go to dance, right?’: Representation/sensation on the gendered dance floor
This article explores a group of young adults’ experiences of social dancing in the Eastside of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Drawing from critical and feminist qualitative methodological approaches as well as dance studies, the ethnography research privileges participants’ embodied knowledge of dancing in particular nightlife settings--small alternative spaces, rather than the city’s more mainstream, big business dance clubs. Dance’s double-bind, as bo…
Pathways to criminalization for street-involved youth who use illicit substances
Illicit drug use and homelessness among street-involved young people remain community and public health concerns, in part because of their association with ‘public disorder’, as well as increased encounters between youth, police, the criminal justice system, and the associated health-related harms. In the public imagination, illicit drug use, homelessness, and police encounters (including incarceration) are often understood as problems rooted in …
Policing ‘Vancouver’s mental health crisis’: A critical discourse analysis
In Canada and other western nations there has been an unprecedented expansion of criminal justice systems and a well documented increase of contact between people with mental illness and the police. Canadian police, especially in Vancouver, British Columbia, have been increasingly at the forefront of discourse and regulation specific to mental health. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, this paper to explores this claim through a case study o…
Visual and narrative representations of mental health and addiction by law enforcement
You Bring Great Masculinity and Truth”: Sexuality, whiteness, and the regulation of the male body in motion
This study contributes to analyses of how heterosexuality and whiteness work together in the embodied social practice of dance and the representational realm of television. It does so by attempting to destabilize theories of sexual difference dependent upon the concept of a stable, "natural," and unitary body by highlighting the representational work that underpins heteronormative (white) masculinity within the first season of the syndicated real…
Supportive housing and surveillance
"Performing "East Van: Spatial Identifications and Class Anxieties
This article draws upon theories of performance and (sub)cultural capital to explore the intersections of class identity and urban spatial practices. Based on interviews and participant observation, this contemporary ethnography explores how some young adults experience the stigmatized neighborhoods of East Vancouver, Canada, imbuing their spatial identifications with subcultural significance and class meaning. Interviewees' spatial and embodied …
(Re)visualizing women who use drugs
This article explores a collaborative, community-based project that fuses both arts-based feminist and visual sociological perspectives through a collaboration with five women in leadership roles in a drug user union, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). VANDU is situated in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada’s poorest urban neighbourhood. Through writing, photography and collage-making, participants in this …
Gendered violence and overdose prevention sites: A rapid ethnographic study during an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada
“We’ve Been Researched to Death”: Exploring the Research Experiences of Urban Indigenous Peoples in Vancouver, Canada
The belief among many Indigenous Peoples of being over-researched, often through questionable research practices, has generated mistrust towards researchers. Despite growing critiques of conventional research practices, understanding of Indigenous Peoples’ contemporary research experiences remains limited. The research this article describes was undertaken by a community organization led by Indigenous Peoples who use illicit substances. Community…
Transitions in income generation among marginalized people who use drugs: A qualitative study on recycling and vulnerability to violence
Harnessing the language of overdose prevention to advance evidence-based responses to the opioid crisis
Negotiating space & drug use in emergency shelters with peer witness injection programs within the context of an overdose crisis: A qualitative study
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
“We don’t got that kind of time, man. We’re trying to get high!”: Exploring potential use of drug checking technologies among structurally vulnerable people who use drugs
Housing in crisis: A qualitative study of the socio-legal contexts of residential evictions in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Naloxone distribution, trauma, and supporting community-based overdose responders
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
Understanding concurrent stimulant use among people on methadone: A qualitative study
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (44 works) · Medicine (40 works) · Sociology (37 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (32 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Political science (26 works) · Public health (25 works) · Nursing (20 works) · Poison control (20 works) · Criminology (19 works)