Damon Barrett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4092050 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Damon Barrett |
| PRENOMES | Damon |
| SOBRENOME | Barrett |
| ASSINATURA | BARRETT D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1668-596X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Progress amidst fracture
Purpose The purpose of this commentary is to reflect on the 69th Session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March 2026, highlighting a moment of both disruption and possibility in global drug policy. Design/methodology/approach Practitioner reflections: The authors have all taken part in the key debates discussed in the commentary. Findings Adopted resolutions laid bare deep political fault lines, particularly around harm reduc…
Access to Services for Under 18s Who Inject Drugs
Many people who inject drugs begin before 18, while they are still legally minors/children. This age group has not been a specific focus in youth harm reduction research. We explore thresholds for service access for under 18s who inject drugs from the perspectives of both people who inject drugs and service providers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 people in Sweden, Switzerland and Wales who began injecting drugs before turning…
Fear and Loathing in the United Nations
This article explores the processes that led to the inclusion of psychedelics under the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, a cornerstone of international drug control. Drawing on archival records, we analyze the narratives and dynamics that shaped this decision. Despite limited scientific evidence of public health dangers, concerns about psychedelics were amplified by sensationalized media focused on their perceived risks, including depe…
What can we know about legal minors who inject drugs? Exploring register data in three high-income countries
Background Research on legal minors who inject drugs is rare and beset with methodological problems. We explore the potential of register data for researching this population and present illustrative analyses contributing to the knowledge base.Method We obtained register data with national coverage from three high-income countries and assessed its analytic potential across two research themes. Descriptive analyses of the obtained data explored pr…
Children Who Inject Drugs
This paper presents findings from a cross-national study comparing frontline workers’ actual and potential responses to injecting drug use among minors (under 18) in Sweden, Switzerland, and Wales. We investigate if and how distinct drug policy contexts and child protection systems appear in front-line workers’ talk, and whether divergent policy settings might be associated with differential institutional responses. Attention is given to the diff…
Understanding the Role of Trust in Healthcare and Intentions to Pursue Live Donor Kidney Transplant Among African American End Stage Kidney Disease Patients
Legal Minors Who Inject
BACKGROUND: Injection drug use among legal minors is under-researched. Although the population may be small in absolute terms, treatment needs may be greater than for those who began injecting as adults. Such knowledge may help tailor services more effectively. Previous research tends to use selective samples or focuses solely on medical indicators. The present study uses a larger sample drawn from national register data in Sweden over a 9-year p…
Child-centred harm reduction
Harm reduction has become increasingly influential in drug policy and practice, but has developed primarily around adult drug use. Theoretical, practical, ethical and legal issues pertaining to children and adolescents under the age of majority - both relating to their own use and the effects of drug use among parents or within the family - are less clear. This commentary proposes a sub-field of drug policy at the intersection of harm reduction a…
Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law
Responding to the harms caused by drugs is one of the most challenging social policy issues of our time. In Child Rights and Drug Control on International Law, Damon Barrett explores the meaning of the child’s right to protection from drugs under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the relationship between this right and the UN drug control conventions. Adopting a critical approach, the book traces the intersecting histories of the tre…
Scheduling medicines as controlled substances
Recent years have seen contentious debate about efforts to schedule medicines such as ketamine and tramadol under the international drug control conventions. Proponents argue that misuse poses a significant risk to public health and that scheduling would help address these problems. However, scheduling of medicines can negatively affect their availability, accessibility and affordability for medical purposes, with serious health consequences for …
Canada, cannabis and the relationship between UN child rights and drug control treaties
International Child Rights Mechanisms and the Death Penalty for Drug Offences
This article investigates whether the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Labour Organization Convention No 182 contribute to systemic human rights risks in the implementation of the UN drug control treaties. It focuses on the death penalty for drug offences applied to adults as part of national legislative frameworks relating to drug control. At no time has either the Committee on the Rights of the Child or the ILO Commit…
A critique of human rights based approaches should demonstrate an understanding of human rights based approaches
Harm reduction is not enough for supply side policy
Security, development and human rights
Harm reduction coming of age
The Right to Water, Privatised Water And Access to Justice
[enter Abstract Body]The existence of a “right” to water in international human rights law does not guarantee access to adequate and safe water for the poorest people on the planet. As an economic right, water is non-justiciable. Multinational corporations, often with the support of Western governments and the World Bank, wield massive power in controlling the water supply for many millions worldwide. In most cases the promises of such corporatio…
The Right to Water, Privatised Water And Access to Justice
[enter Abstract Body]The existence of a “right” to water in international human rights law does not guarantee access to adequate and safe water for the poorest people on the planet. As an economic right, water is non-justiciable. Multinational corporations, often with the support of Western governments and the World Bank, wield massive power in controlling the water supply for many millions worldwide. In most cases the promises of such corporatio…
Harm reduction coming of age
The Right to Water, Privatised Water And Access to Justice
[enter Abstract Body]The existence of a “right” to water in international human rights law does not guarantee access to adequate and safe water for the poorest people on the planet. As an economic right, water is non-justiciable. Multinational corporations, often with the support of Western governments and the World Bank, wield massive power in controlling the water supply for many millions worldwide. In most cases the promises of such corporatio…
Security, development and human rights
A critique of human rights based approaches should demonstrate an understanding of human rights based approaches
Harm reduction is not enough for supply side policy
International Child Rights Mechanisms and the Death Penalty for Drug Offences
This article investigates whether the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Labour Organization Convention No 182 contribute to systemic human rights risks in the implementation of the UN drug control treaties. It focuses on the death penalty for drug offences applied to adults as part of national legislative frameworks relating to drug control. At no time has either the Committee on the Rights of the Child or the ILO Commit…
Canada, cannabis and the relationship between UN child rights and drug control treaties
Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law
Responding to the harms caused by drugs is one of the most challenging social policy issues of our time. In Child Rights and Drug Control on International Law, Damon Barrett explores the meaning of the child’s right to protection from drugs under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the relationship between this right and the UN drug control conventions. Adopting a critical approach, the book traces the intersecting histories of the tre…
Scheduling medicines as controlled substances
Recent years have seen contentious debate about efforts to schedule medicines such as ketamine and tramadol under the international drug control conventions. Proponents argue that misuse poses a significant risk to public health and that scheduling would help address these problems. However, scheduling of medicines can negatively affect their availability, accessibility and affordability for medical purposes, with serious health consequences for …
Child-centred harm reduction
Harm reduction has become increasingly influential in drug policy and practice, but has developed primarily around adult drug use. Theoretical, practical, ethical and legal issues pertaining to children and adolescents under the age of majority - both relating to their own use and the effects of drug use among parents or within the family - are less clear. This commentary proposes a sub-field of drug policy at the intersection of harm reduction a…
Legal Minors Who Inject
BACKGROUND: Injection drug use among legal minors is under-researched. Although the population may be small in absolute terms, treatment needs may be greater than for those who began injecting as adults. Such knowledge may help tailor services more effectively. Previous research tends to use selective samples or focuses solely on medical indicators. The present study uses a larger sample drawn from national register data in Sweden over a 9-year p…
What can we know about legal minors who inject drugs? Exploring register data in three high-income countries
Background Research on legal minors who inject drugs is rare and beset with methodological problems. We explore the potential of register data for researching this population and present illustrative analyses contributing to the knowledge base.Method We obtained register data with national coverage from three high-income countries and assessed its analytic potential across two research themes. Descriptive analyses of the obtained data explored pr…
Children Who Inject Drugs
This paper presents findings from a cross-national study comparing frontline workers’ actual and potential responses to injecting drug use among minors (under 18) in Sweden, Switzerland, and Wales. We investigate if and how distinct drug policy contexts and child protection systems appear in front-line workers’ talk, and whether divergent policy settings might be associated with differential institutional responses. Attention is given to the diff…
Understanding the Role of Trust in Healthcare and Intentions to Pursue Live Donor Kidney Transplant Among African American End Stage Kidney Disease Patients
Progress amidst fracture
Purpose The purpose of this commentary is to reflect on the 69th Session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March 2026, highlighting a moment of both disruption and possibility in global drug policy. Design/methodology/approach Practitioner reflections: The authors have all taken part in the key debates discussed in the commentary. Findings Adopted resolutions laid bare deep political fault lines, particularly around harm reduc…
Access to Services for Under 18s Who Inject Drugs
Many people who inject drugs begin before 18, while they are still legally minors/children. This age group has not been a specific focus in youth harm reduction research. We explore thresholds for service access for under 18s who inject drugs from the perspectives of both people who inject drugs and service providers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 people in Sweden, Switzerland and Wales who began injecting drugs before turning…
Fear and Loathing in the United Nations
This article explores the processes that led to the inclusion of psychedelics under the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, a cornerstone of international drug control. Drawing on archival records, we analyze the narratives and dynamics that shaped this decision. Despite limited scientific evidence of public health dangers, concerns about psychedelics were amplified by sensationalized media focused on their perceived risks, including depe…
Political science (11 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Human rights (8 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Drug control (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Harm (5 obras) · Harm reduction (5 obras)