Amanda Slaunwhite
Biographic Data
| ID | 5412682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Slaunwhite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Slaunwhite |
| SIGNATURE | SLAUNWHITE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1355-0031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Problem representation of the Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) within the context of dual public health emergencies of Covid-19 and toxic drug deaths in British Columbia, Canada
Our study builds on the importance of evaluating problem representations in the process of policymaking. The RMG illustrates how crisis-driven policymaking shapes problem representations, enabling rapid intervention through the COVID-19 response while constraining responses to the toxic drug emergency. As a medicalized emergency response, the RMG addressed contagion but failed to confront the structural drivers of toxic drug deaths. Our study hig…
Evaluating the association of transferring governance of correctional health care services with overdose and all-cause mortality: A retrospective cohort study in British Columbia, Canada
Implementation Barriers and Outcomes of a Provincial Prescribed Safer Supply Initiative among Indigenous People who use Substances amid Covid-19 and a Toxic Drug Crisis in British Columbia, Canada
Background: In 2020, British Columbia (BC) introduced Risk Mitigation Guidance to support the provision of prescribed safer supply (PSS) to people at risk of toxic drug harms and death amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to assess the self-reported barriers to and outcomes of PSS among Indigenous people who sought or accessed a prescription. Methods: Cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys with up to 5 time points per participant over 3 months…
Just have this come from their prescription pad: The medicalization of safer supply from the perspectives of health planners in BC, Canada
Context In March 2020, British Columbia introduced the Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) to enable the prescription of pharmaceutical substitutes for the unregulated drug market to decrease overdose deaths and COVID-19 infections. This study presents health planners’ perspectives on the RMG adoption within a medicalized system of care.Methods We conducted interviews with 28 health planners to obtain their views on implementation. We undertook a them…
Shared experience makes this all possible”: Documenting the guiding principles of peer-led services for people released from prison
The principles identified in this study can be used by UTGSS staff as a guide for checking-in on progress with clients and may be considered as a model for reflection on practice by staff providing similar peer-led services. These principles should not be applied in a prescriptive way, as relationship building is at the centre of peer support, and different applications will be required depending on clients' goals and the range of supports availa…
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
Rising rates of infective endocarditis in North America: An urgent need for attention to the rapidly changing unregulated drug supply
Overdose deaths and the Covid ‐19 pandemic in British Columbia, Canada
Spatial-temporal trends in the risk of illicit drug toxicity death in British Columbia
Rural areas were disproportionately affected by fatal overdose; lack of access to harm reduction services may partly explain the elevated risk in these areas
Concurrent use of opioids and stimulants and risk of fatal overdose: A cohort study
There is an urgent need to prioritize the service needs of people who use stimulants to reduce overdose mortality in British Columbia. Findings have relevance more broadly in other North American settings, where similar trends in opioid and stimulant polysubstance use have been observed
Overdose Prevention and Housing: A Qualitative Study Examining Drug Use, Overdose Risk, and Access to Safer Supply in Permanent Supportive Housing in Vancouver, Canada
Collaborative Data Governance to Support First Nations-Led Overdose Surveillance and Data Analysis in British Columbia, Canada
First Nations Peoples in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, have been disproportionately affected by the overdose crisis. In 2016, a public health emergency was declared by BC’s Provincial Health Officer (PHO) in response to the significant rise in opioid-related overdose deaths reported in BC. New surveillance systems were required to identify trends in overdose events and related deaths in the province as a whole, and for First Nati…
Alcohol distribution reforms and school proximity to liquor sales outlets in New Brunswick
Regional Variations in General Practitioner Visits for Alcohol-Attributed Diseases in British Columbia, Canada
The emotional health and well-being of Canadians who care for persons with mental health or addictions problems
The purpose of this project was to examine the emotional health and well-being of Canadian caregivers of persons with significant mental health or addictions problems. We assessed the emotional health of caregivers by care-receiver condition type (i.e. mental health or addictions vs. physical or other health problems), levels of caregiver stress and methods particularly for reducing stress among caregivers of persons with mental health or addicti…
Alcohol, Isolation, and Access to Treatment: Family Physician Experiences of Alcohol Consumption and Access to Health Care in Rural British Columbia
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this project was to study the experiences of physicians who treat persons with alcohol-attributed diseases in rural areas of British Columbia, Canada. METHOD: A cross-sectional survey was distributed to primary health care physicians that had a family practice in a designated rural community using the Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia's community isolation rating system. Data were collected through a mail and…
The Role of Gender and Income in Predicting Barriers to Mental Health Care in Canada
The Role of Gender and Income in Predicting Barriers to Mental Health Care in Canada
Overdose Prevention and Housing: A Qualitative Study Examining Drug Use, Overdose Risk, and Access to Safer Supply in Permanent Supportive Housing in Vancouver, Canada
Alcohol distribution reforms and school proximity to liquor sales outlets in New Brunswick
The emotional health and well-being of Canadians who care for persons with mental health or addictions problems
The purpose of this project was to examine the emotional health and well-being of Canadian caregivers of persons with significant mental health or addictions problems. We assessed the emotional health of caregivers by care-receiver condition type (i.e. mental health or addictions vs. physical or other health problems), levels of caregiver stress and methods particularly for reducing stress among caregivers of persons with mental health or addicti…
Alcohol, Isolation, and Access to Treatment: Family Physician Experiences of Alcohol Consumption and Access to Health Care in Rural British Columbia
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this project was to study the experiences of physicians who treat persons with alcohol-attributed diseases in rural areas of British Columbia, Canada. METHOD: A cross-sectional survey was distributed to primary health care physicians that had a family practice in a designated rural community using the Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia's community isolation rating system. Data were collected through a mail and…
The Role of Gender and Income in Predicting Barriers to Mental Health Care in Canada
Regional Variations in General Practitioner Visits for Alcohol-Attributed Diseases in British Columbia, Canada
The emotional health and well-being of Canadians who care for persons with mental health or addictions problems
The purpose of this project was to examine the emotional health and well-being of Canadian caregivers of persons with significant mental health or addictions problems. We assessed the emotional health of caregivers by care-receiver condition type (i.e. mental health or addictions vs. physical or other health problems), levels of caregiver stress and methods particularly for reducing stress among caregivers of persons with mental health or addicti…
Alcohol distribution reforms and school proximity to liquor sales outlets in New Brunswick
Collaborative Data Governance to Support First Nations-Led Overdose Surveillance and Data Analysis in British Columbia, Canada
First Nations Peoples in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, have been disproportionately affected by the overdose crisis. In 2016, a public health emergency was declared by BC’s Provincial Health Officer (PHO) in response to the significant rise in opioid-related overdose deaths reported in BC. New surveillance systems were required to identify trends in overdose events and related deaths in the province as a whole, and for First Nati…
Overdose deaths and the Covid ‐19 pandemic in British Columbia, Canada
Spatial-temporal trends in the risk of illicit drug toxicity death in British Columbia
Rural areas were disproportionately affected by fatal overdose; lack of access to harm reduction services may partly explain the elevated risk in these areas
Concurrent use of opioids and stimulants and risk of fatal overdose: A cohort study
There is an urgent need to prioritize the service needs of people who use stimulants to reduce overdose mortality in British Columbia. Findings have relevance more broadly in other North American settings, where similar trends in opioid and stimulant polysubstance use have been observed
Overdose Prevention and Housing: A Qualitative Study Examining Drug Use, Overdose Risk, and Access to Safer Supply in Permanent Supportive Housing in Vancouver, Canada
Rising rates of infective endocarditis in North America: An urgent need for attention to the rapidly changing unregulated drug supply
Just have this come from their prescription pad: The medicalization of safer supply from the perspectives of health planners in BC, Canada
Context In March 2020, British Columbia introduced the Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) to enable the prescription of pharmaceutical substitutes for the unregulated drug market to decrease overdose deaths and COVID-19 infections. This study presents health planners’ perspectives on the RMG adoption within a medicalized system of care.Methods We conducted interviews with 28 health planners to obtain their views on implementation. We undertook a them…
Shared experience makes this all possible”: Documenting the guiding principles of peer-led services for people released from prison
The principles identified in this study can be used by UTGSS staff as a guide for checking-in on progress with clients and may be considered as a model for reflection on practice by staff providing similar peer-led services. These principles should not be applied in a prescriptive way, as relationship building is at the centre of peer support, and different applications will be required depending on clients' goals and the range of supports availa…
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
Evaluating the association of transferring governance of correctional health care services with overdose and all-cause mortality: A retrospective cohort study in British Columbia, Canada
Implementation Barriers and Outcomes of a Provincial Prescribed Safer Supply Initiative among Indigenous People who use Substances amid Covid-19 and a Toxic Drug Crisis in British Columbia, Canada
Background: In 2020, British Columbia (BC) introduced Risk Mitigation Guidance to support the provision of prescribed safer supply (PSS) to people at risk of toxic drug harms and death amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to assess the self-reported barriers to and outcomes of PSS among Indigenous people who sought or accessed a prescription. Methods: Cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys with up to 5 time points per participant over 3 months…
Problem representation of the Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) within the context of dual public health emergencies of Covid-19 and toxic drug deaths in British Columbia, Canada
Our study builds on the importance of evaluating problem representations in the process of policymaking. The RMG illustrates how crisis-driven policymaking shapes problem representations, enabling rapid intervention through the COVID-19 response while constraining responses to the toxic drug emergency. As a medicalized emergency response, the RMG addressed contagion but failed to confront the structural drivers of toxic drug deaths. Our study hig…
Medicine (13 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Public health (9 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (7 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Drug overdose (4 works)