Lindsey Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsey Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6376-8891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Payday Loan Use Among People With Lived and Living Experience of Substance Use
Uncovered, underfunded, and undervalued
BACKGROUND: Pragmatic trials evaluate the effectiveness or feasibility of a treatment in clinical practice. However, in substance use research, the "real world" is characterized by patterns of structural stigma embedded in everchanging drug policies and public perceptions that vary by jurisdiction. While such contextual influences typically go unmeasured in clinical research, these localized features may shape participants' trial experiences and …
The Gender Segregation of Precarious Work Contexts Among People Who Use Drugs
Trying to get down here when the dealer's closer
Patterns of socioeconomic marginalization and non-fatal overdose among people who use drugs
Effect of modified income assistance payment schedules on substance use service access
An ecological study of the correlation between Covid-19 support payments and overdose events in British Columbia, Canada
These findings suggest that attributing the pandemic increase in overdose to income support payments is unfounded. Sustained levels of unacceptably high non-fatal and fatal drug poisonings that further increased at the start of the pandemic are reflective of complex pre-existing and pandemic-driven changes to overdose risk
Patterns of Socioeconomic Marginalization among People Who Use Drugs
Fronts and Friends
Illicit drug markets have long been associated with violence as a mode of regulating market behavior, especially regarding debts linked to drug purchase. While a growing literature examines violent and nonviolent modes of ensuring repayment by dealers and lenders, little research has focused on strategies of buyers and borrowers in navigating drug debt. Drawing on interviews with 75 people who use drugs within a materially disadvantaged neighborh…
Experiences of violence during the Covid-19 pandemic among people who use drugs in a Canadian setting
Our study results suggest economic conditions and gender were major factors associated with experiencing violence among our sample of PWUD during COVID-19. These findings highlight criminalization of drug use and widespread socioeconomic challenges as barriers to addressing violence among PWUD during periods of crisis
Pathways connecting socioeconomic marginalization and overdose
Socioeconomic marginalization and risk of overdose in a community-recruited cohort of people who use drugs
Social-Structural Predictors of Fentanyl Exposure among Street Involved Youth
ObjectiveThe emergence of synthetic fentanyl has been a main contributor to North America’s rising overdose death rates. While increasing attention has been given to drug-related harm among youth, little is known about how social-structural conditions influence their risk of fentanyl exposure. Therefore, we evaluated potential relationships between social-structural conditions and fentanyl exposure among youth who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, …
Cohort Profile
The Assessing Economic Transitions (ASSET) study was established to identify relationships between economic engagement, health and well-being in inner-city populations given that research in this area is currently underdeveloped. This paper describes the objectives, design, and characteristics of the ASSET study cohort, an open prospective cohort which aims to provide data on opportunities for addressing economic engagement in an inner-city drug-…
Assessing the Temporality Between Transitions onto Opioid Agonist Therapy and Engagement with Antiretroviral Therapy in a Cohort of HIV-Positive People Who Use Opioids Daily
Changes in the unregulated opioid drug supply during income assistance payment weeks in Vancouver, Canada
Research Participation in Substance Use Disorder Trials
Background Given the health and social harms of problematic substance use, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are critical in developing and testing pharmacotherapies for substance use disorders. However, substance use RCTs can be challenging to conduct, considering the social and structural barriers to participating in research among people with substance use disorders (PSUD), including stigma, poverty, and criminalization-factors that can shap…
Integrated knowledge translation to strengthen public policy research
This IKT project was embedded within the study titled: The impact of Alternative Social Assistance Disbursement on Drug-Related Harm (TASA), known as Cheque Day Study, registered on ClinicalTrials.gov ( NCT02457949 ) May 29, 2015
A paradox of need
In Canada, publicly funded healthcare provides no-cost access to a large but not comprehensive suite of services. Dental care is largely funded by private insurance or patients, creating employment- and income-dependent gaps in care access. Difficulties accessing dental care may be amplified among vulnerable populations, including people who use drugs (PWUD), who may experience greater dental need due to side effects of substance use and health c…
Experimental (Re)structuring
Amid the growth of addiction medicine randomized controlled trials (RCTs), scholars have begun examining participants' study experiences, highlighting facilitators and barriers to enrollment. However, this work can overlook the interplay between trial participation and social-structural dimensions among people with substance use disorders linked to the social nature of use, socioeconomic marginalization, and time demands of substance procurement …
This could be my last chance
In randomised controlled trials (RCTs), 'therapeutic optimism' describes a participant's belief they will benefit from the study treatment, despite the express goal of RCTs to test unknown aspects of interventions. Harbouring such expectations may interfere with RCT participation experiences, particularly among marginalised populations, such as people with substance use disorders (PSUD) who may experience social and structural barriers to partici…
Material Security as a Measure of Poverty
Socioeconomic marginalization and opioid-related overdose
Longitudinal Factors Associated with Used Syringe Lending Among HIV-Positive Antiretroviral Therapy-Naïve People Who Inject Drugs in a Canadian Setting
Trajectories of retention in opioid agonist therapy in a Canadian setting
The impact of social, structural and physical environmental factors on transitions into employment among people who inject drugs
Socioeconomic marginalisation in the structural production of vulnerability to violence among people who use illicit drugs
OBJECTIVE: Many people who use illicit drugs (PWUD) face challenges to their financial stability. Resulting activities that PWUD undertake to generate income may increase their vulnerability to violence. We therefore examined the relationship between income generation and exposure to violence across a wide range of income generating activities among HIV-positive and HIV-negative PWUD living in Vancouver, Canada. METHODS: Data were derived from co…
Pathways linking drug use and labour market trajectories
People affected by substance use disorders often experience sub-optimal employment outcomes. The role of drug use in processes that produce and entrench labour market precarity among people who inject drugs (PWID) have not, however, been fully described. We recruited 22PWIDfrom ongoing prospective cohort studies in Vancouver, Canada, with whom we conducted semi-structured retrospective interviews and then employed a thematic analysis that drew on…
Experimental (Re)structuring
Amid the growth of addiction medicine randomized controlled trials (RCTs), scholars have begun examining participants' study experiences, highlighting facilitators and barriers to enrollment. However, this work can overlook the interplay between trial participation and social-structural dimensions among people with substance use disorders linked to the social nature of use, socioeconomic marginalization, and time demands of substance procurement …
This could be my last chance
In randomised controlled trials (RCTs), 'therapeutic optimism' describes a participant's belief they will benefit from the study treatment, despite the express goal of RCTs to test unknown aspects of interventions. Harbouring such expectations may interfere with RCT participation experiences, particularly among marginalised populations, such as people with substance use disorders (PSUD) who may experience social and structural barriers to partici…
Women Who Use Drugs and Have Sex with Women in a Canadian Setting
Patterns of socioeconomic marginalization and non-fatal overdose among people who use drugs
A paradox of need
In Canada, publicly funded healthcare provides no-cost access to a large but not comprehensive suite of services. Dental care is largely funded by private insurance or patients, creating employment- and income-dependent gaps in care access. Difficulties accessing dental care may be amplified among vulnerable populations, including people who use drugs (PWUD), who may experience greater dental need due to side effects of substance use and health c…
Material Security as a Measure of Poverty
Increased drug use and the timing of social assistance receipt among people who use illicit drugs
Employment predicts decreased mortality among HIV-seropositive illicit drug users in a setting of universal HIV care
OBJECTIVE: Given the link between employment and mortality in the general population, we sought to assess this relationship among HIV-positive people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, Canada. METHODS: Data were derived from a prospective cohort study of HIV seropositive people who use illicit drugs (n=666) during the period of May 1996-June 2010 linked to comprehensive clinical data in Vancouver, Canada, a setting where HIV care is delivered wi…
The evolution of drug policy in Vancouver, Canada
Employment amongst people who use drugs
Modeling the impact of supra-structural network nodes
The impact of social, structural and physical environmental factors on transitions into employment among people who inject drugs
Timing of income assistance payment and overdose patterns at a Canadian supervised injection facility
Employment predicts decreased mortality among HIV-seropositive illicit drug users in a setting of universal HIV care
OBJECTIVE: Given the link between employment and mortality in the general population, we sought to assess this relationship among HIV-positive people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, Canada. METHODS: Data were derived from a prospective cohort study of HIV seropositive people who use illicit drugs (n=666) during the period of May 1996-June 2010 linked to comprehensive clinical data in Vancouver, Canada, a setting where HIV care is delivered wi…
Socioeconomic marginalisation in the structural production of vulnerability to violence among people who use illicit drugs
OBJECTIVE: Many people who use illicit drugs (PWUD) face challenges to their financial stability. Resulting activities that PWUD undertake to generate income may increase their vulnerability to violence. We therefore examined the relationship between income generation and exposure to violence across a wide range of income generating activities among HIV-positive and HIV-negative PWUD living in Vancouver, Canada. METHODS: Data were derived from co…
Protocol of the impact of alternative social assistance disbursement on drug-related harm (Tasa) study
NCT02457949 Registered 13 May 2015
Illicit drug overdose deaths resulting from income assistance payments
Our findings clarify the temporal relation and causal impact of income assistance payments on illicit drug deaths. We estimate 77 avoidable deaths were attributable to the synchronized disbursement of income assistance cheques over the five year period. An important consideration is whether varying the timing of payments among recipients could reduce this excess mortality and the related demands on health and social services
Women Who Use Drugs and Have Sex with Women in a Canadian Setting
Increased drug use and the timing of social assistance receipt among people who use illicit drugs
Pathways linking drug use and labour market trajectories
People affected by substance use disorders often experience sub-optimal employment outcomes. The role of drug use in processes that produce and entrench labour market precarity among people who inject drugs (PWID) have not, however, been fully described. We recruited 22PWIDfrom ongoing prospective cohort studies in Vancouver, Canada, with whom we conducted semi-structured retrospective interviews and then employed a thematic analysis that drew on…
Syringe Sharing Among a Prospective Cohort of Street-Involved Youth
Transitions in income generation among marginalized people who use drugs
Informal recycling, income generation and risk
These findings suggest informal recycling as a situated practice for PWUD, with potential indications for higher-risk drug use, experiencing greater surveillance, and difficulty accessing health and addiction treatment services. This research highlights the significance of the broader risk environment and the need for health-promoting policies for socioeconomically marginalised PWUD engaged in informal recycling
The perspectives of structurally vulnerable people who use drugs on volunteer stipends and work experiences provided through a drug user organization
Employment Cessation, Long Term Labour Market Engagement and HIV Infection Risk Among People Who Inject Drugs in an Urban Canadian Setting
Criminal Justice System Involvement as a Risk Factor for Detectable Plasma HIV Viral Load in People Who Use Illicit Drugs
Socioeconomic marginalization and opioid-related overdose
Longitudinal Factors Associated with Used Syringe Lending Among HIV-Positive Antiretroviral Therapy-Naïve People Who Inject Drugs in a Canadian Setting
Trajectories of retention in opioid agonist therapy in a Canadian setting
Integrated knowledge translation to strengthen public policy research
This IKT project was embedded within the study titled: The impact of Alternative Social Assistance Disbursement on Drug-Related Harm (TASA), known as Cheque Day Study, registered on ClinicalTrials.gov ( NCT02457949 ) May 29, 2015
A paradox of need
In Canada, publicly funded healthcare provides no-cost access to a large but not comprehensive suite of services. Dental care is largely funded by private insurance or patients, creating employment- and income-dependent gaps in care access. Difficulties accessing dental care may be amplified among vulnerable populations, including people who use drugs (PWUD), who may experience greater dental need due to side effects of substance use and health c…
Experimental (Re)structuring
Amid the growth of addiction medicine randomized controlled trials (RCTs), scholars have begun examining participants' study experiences, highlighting facilitators and barriers to enrollment. However, this work can overlook the interplay between trial participation and social-structural dimensions among people with substance use disorders linked to the social nature of use, socioeconomic marginalization, and time demands of substance procurement …
This could be my last chance
In randomised controlled trials (RCTs), 'therapeutic optimism' describes a participant's belief they will benefit from the study treatment, despite the express goal of RCTs to test unknown aspects of interventions. Harbouring such expectations may interfere with RCT participation experiences, particularly among marginalised populations, such as people with substance use disorders (PSUD) who may experience social and structural barriers to partici…
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (35 works) · Medicine (35 works) · Psychiatry (22 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Environmental health (20 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Demography (15 works) · Public health (15 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (13 works)