Mark C Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 94349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark C Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1186-2151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A qualitative evaluation of a fentanyl patch safer supply program in Vancouver, Canada
Our findings demonstrate the value of including fentanyl patch safer supply in the substance use continuum of care and offer insights for innovations in delivery of this intervention
The impact of an unsanctioned compassion club on non-fatal overdose
In this study, enrolment in an unsanctioned compassion club was found to be associated with reductions in any type of non-fatal overdose and non-fatal overdose involving naloxone administration. These findings highlight the need for ongoing research on safer supply interventions, as well as the potential of non-medicalized compassion clubs to complement existing safer supply programming and reduce overdose events
Characterizing Use of Supervised Consumption Services among Street-involved Youth and Young Adults in the Context of an Overdose Crisis
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, …
Flawed reports can harm: The case of supervised consumption services in Alberta
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Developments in Trauma and Resilience Aware Services
Research has demonstrated conclusively that the experience of adversities in childhood increases the risks for poor outcomes in the domains of physical and mental health and economic and social circumstances across the life course. This has produced a wave of interest in the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences internationally, with developments in policy across the UK nations reflective of this. The translation of such research and policy de…
Supervised injection facility use and exposure to violence among a cohort of people who inject drugs: A gender-based analysis
Assisted injection within supervised injection services: Uptake and client characteristics among people who require help injecting in a Canadian setting
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…
Peer worker involvement in low-threshold supervised consumption facilities in the context of an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada
Beyond the Walls: An Evaluation of a Pre-Release Planning (PReP) Programme for Sentenced Mentally Disordered Offenders
Background: Prison mental health services have tended to focus on improving the quality of care provided to mentally disordered offenders at the initial point of contact with the prison system and within the prison environment itself. When these individuals reach the end of their sentence and return to the community, there is an increased risk of morbidity, mortality, homelessness and re-imprisonment. New models of care have been developed to min…
Supervised injection facilities in Canada: Past, present, and future
Canada has long contended with harms arising from injection drug use. In response to epidemics of HIV infection and overdose in Vancouver in the mid-1990s, a range of actors advocated for the creation of supervised injection facilities (SIFs), and after several unsanctioned SIFs operated briefly and closed, Canada's first sanctioned SIF opened in 2003. However, while a large body of evidence highlights the successes of this SIF in reducing the he…
Residential eviction and exposure to violence among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Social relationships and social support among street-involved youth
Recent studies suggest that street-involved youth may have more robust and diverse social networks than previously thought. However, the supports offered by their social relationships have not been studied in detail. We analyzed descriptive quantitative data and open-ended interviews with 130 street-involved youth aged 14–18 in Victoria, Canada, to investigate the perceived roles and supportive functions of their most-valued social relationships.…
Overdose Prevention in the United States: A Call for Supervised Injection Sites
"Overdose Prevention in the United States: A Call for Supervised Injection Sites." , 107(1), pp. 42–43
Longer duration of homelessness is associated with a lower likelihood of non-detectable plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load among people who use illicit drugs in a Canadian setting
Homelessness is common among people who use drugs (PWUD) and, for those living with HIV/AIDS, an important contributor to sub-optimal HIV treatment outcomes. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the duration of homelessness and the likelihood of plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load (VL) non-detectability among a cohort of HIV-positive PWUD. We used data from the ACCESS study, a long-running prospective cohort study of HIV-positive PWUD …
Residential Eviction and Risk of Detectable Plasma HIV-1 RNA Viral Load Among HIV-Positive People Who Use Drugs
Encounters with private security guards among people who inject drugs in a Canadian setting
Instability and caregiving in the lives of street‐involved youth from foster care
A large proportion of youth who become street‐involved have experience in foster care, and our sample of 92 street‐involved youth, aged 14–18 years, all had foster care experience. We report on (i) instability of guardians and home from birth to street involvement; (ii) the connection between perceptions about foster care and measures of well‐being; and (iii) the implications of these findings for understanding street‐involved youth and the role …
Prehistoric Footprints in Jaguar Cave, Tennessee
About 4500 years ago, during the Late Archaic period, nine explorers reconnoitered several passages within a large cave in north central Tennessee. Although prehistoric cave exploration was not unusual in eastern North America, this particular trip is unique because 274 footprints of these ancient cavers are preserved in the damp floor sediment of a side passage. Analyses of the route taken by the explorers, and of their footprint trail significa…
Introduction: Open Doors, Transnationals and the Global Division of Labor
Journal Article Introduction: Open Doors, Transnationals and the Global Division of Labor Get access Mark C. Kennedy Mark C. Kennedy American University of Cairo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 28, Issue 4, 1 April 1981, Pages 339–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/800048 Published: 30 July 2014
Collective Search for Identity
Feedbackfrom our readers
Is There an Ecology of Mental Illness
Peer worker involvement in low-threshold supervised consumption facilities in the context of an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada
Prehistoric Footprints in Jaguar Cave, Tennessee
About 4500 years ago, during the Late Archaic period, nine explorers reconnoitered several passages within a large cave in north central Tennessee. Although prehistoric cave exploration was not unusual in eastern North America, this particular trip is unique because 274 footprints of these ancient cavers are preserved in the damp floor sediment of a side passage. Analyses of the route taken by the explorers, and of their footprint trail significa…
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Developments in Trauma and Resilience Aware Services
Research has demonstrated conclusively that the experience of adversities in childhood increases the risks for poor outcomes in the domains of physical and mental health and economic and social circumstances across the life course. This has produced a wave of interest in the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences internationally, with developments in policy across the UK nations reflective of this. The translation of such research and policy de…
Instability and caregiving in the lives of street‐involved youth from foster care
A large proportion of youth who become street‐involved have experience in foster care, and our sample of 92 street‐involved youth, aged 14–18 years, all had foster care experience. We report on (i) instability of guardians and home from birth to street involvement; (ii) the connection between perceptions about foster care and measures of well‐being; and (iii) the implications of these findings for understanding street‐involved youth and the role …
Flawed reports can harm: The case of supervised consumption services in Alberta
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
Overdose Prevention in the United States: A Call for Supervised Injection Sites
"Overdose Prevention in the United States: A Call for Supervised Injection Sites." , 107(1), pp. 42–43
Social relationships and social support among street-involved youth
Recent studies suggest that street-involved youth may have more robust and diverse social networks than previously thought. However, the supports offered by their social relationships have not been studied in detail. We analyzed descriptive quantitative data and open-ended interviews with 130 street-involved youth aged 14–18 in Victoria, Canada, to investigate the perceived roles and supportive functions of their most-valued social relationships.…
Introduction: Open Doors, Transnationals and the Global Division of Labor
Journal Article Introduction: Open Doors, Transnationals and the Global Division of Labor Get access Mark C. Kennedy Mark C. Kennedy American University of Cairo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 28, Issue 4, 1 April 1981, Pages 339–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/800048 Published: 30 July 2014
Is There an Ecology of Mental Illness
Feedbackfrom our readers
Collective Search for Identity
Introduction: Open Doors, Transnationals and the Global Division of Labor
Journal Article Introduction: Open Doors, Transnationals and the Global Division of Labor Get access Mark C. Kennedy Mark C. Kennedy American University of Cairo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 28, Issue 4, 1 April 1981, Pages 339–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/800048 Published: 30 July 2014
Prehistoric Footprints in Jaguar Cave, Tennessee
About 4500 years ago, during the Late Archaic period, nine explorers reconnoitered several passages within a large cave in north central Tennessee. Although prehistoric cave exploration was not unusual in eastern North America, this particular trip is unique because 274 footprints of these ancient cavers are preserved in the damp floor sediment of a side passage. Analyses of the route taken by the explorers, and of their footprint trail significa…
Instability and caregiving in the lives of street‐involved youth from foster care
A large proportion of youth who become street‐involved have experience in foster care, and our sample of 92 street‐involved youth, aged 14–18 years, all had foster care experience. We report on (i) instability of guardians and home from birth to street involvement; (ii) the connection between perceptions about foster care and measures of well‐being; and (iii) the implications of these findings for understanding street‐involved youth and the role …
Longer duration of homelessness is associated with a lower likelihood of non-detectable plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load among people who use illicit drugs in a Canadian setting
Homelessness is common among people who use drugs (PWUD) and, for those living with HIV/AIDS, an important contributor to sub-optimal HIV treatment outcomes. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the duration of homelessness and the likelihood of plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load (VL) non-detectability among a cohort of HIV-positive PWUD. We used data from the ACCESS study, a long-running prospective cohort study of HIV-positive PWUD …
Residential Eviction and Risk of Detectable Plasma HIV-1 RNA Viral Load Among HIV-Positive People Who Use Drugs
Encounters with private security guards among people who inject drugs in a Canadian setting
Supervised injection facilities in Canada: Past, present, and future
Canada has long contended with harms arising from injection drug use. In response to epidemics of HIV infection and overdose in Vancouver in the mid-1990s, a range of actors advocated for the creation of supervised injection facilities (SIFs), and after several unsanctioned SIFs operated briefly and closed, Canada's first sanctioned SIF opened in 2003. However, while a large body of evidence highlights the successes of this SIF in reducing the he…
Residential eviction and exposure to violence among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Social relationships and social support among street-involved youth
Recent studies suggest that street-involved youth may have more robust and diverse social networks than previously thought. However, the supports offered by their social relationships have not been studied in detail. We analyzed descriptive quantitative data and open-ended interviews with 130 street-involved youth aged 14–18 in Victoria, Canada, to investigate the perceived roles and supportive functions of their most-valued social relationships.…
Overdose Prevention in the United States: A Call for Supervised Injection Sites
"Overdose Prevention in the United States: A Call for Supervised Injection Sites." , 107(1), pp. 42–43
Beyond the Walls: An Evaluation of a Pre-Release Planning (PReP) Programme for Sentenced Mentally Disordered Offenders
Background: Prison mental health services have tended to focus on improving the quality of care provided to mentally disordered offenders at the initial point of contact with the prison system and within the prison environment itself. When these individuals reach the end of their sentence and return to the community, there is an increased risk of morbidity, mortality, homelessness and re-imprisonment. New models of care have been developed to min…
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…
Peer worker involvement in low-threshold supervised consumption facilities in the context of an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada
Supervised injection facility use and exposure to violence among a cohort of people who inject drugs: A gender-based analysis
Assisted injection within supervised injection services: Uptake and client characteristics among people who require help injecting in a Canadian setting
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Developments in Trauma and Resilience Aware Services
Research has demonstrated conclusively that the experience of adversities in childhood increases the risks for poor outcomes in the domains of physical and mental health and economic and social circumstances across the life course. This has produced a wave of interest in the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences internationally, with developments in policy across the UK nations reflective of this. The translation of such research and policy de…
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, …
Flawed reports can harm: The case of supervised consumption services in Alberta
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
A qualitative evaluation of a fentanyl patch safer supply program in Vancouver, Canada
Our findings demonstrate the value of including fentanyl patch safer supply in the substance use continuum of care and offer insights for innovations in delivery of this intervention
The impact of an unsanctioned compassion club on non-fatal overdose
In this study, enrolment in an unsanctioned compassion club was found to be associated with reductions in any type of non-fatal overdose and non-fatal overdose involving naloxone administration. These findings highlight the need for ongoing research on safer supply interventions, as well as the potential of non-medicalized compassion clubs to complement existing safer supply programming and reduce overdose events
Characterizing Use of Supervised Consumption Services among Street-involved Youth and Young Adults in the Context of an Overdose Crisis
Medicine (17 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (13 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Public health (7 works) · Law (6 works)