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
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14905596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jade Boyd (0000-0001-7919-5995, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 137 |
| Pages | 104719 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Drug Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-3959 • E-ISSN: 1873-4758 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104719 |
| PMID | 40024632 |
| OpenAlex | W4406940658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 78 |
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, propelled by moralizing discourses framing them as deviant and consequentially undeserving, can have devastating health impacts (on individuals and communities) yet remain underaddressed
Alternative medicine · Dual (grammatical number · Environmental health · Internet privacy · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Protocol (science · Public health · Computer Science · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Medicine · Nursing · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment · Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
Feminist methods in social research
Crack in America
Social determinants of health and inequalities in Covid-19
HIV, HCV, and Health-Related Harms Among Women Who Inject Drugs
Challenges posed by Covid‐19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks
Gendered violence and overdose prevention sites
Peering into the literature
Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973–2005
Addressing the Syndemic of HIV, Hepatitis C, Overdose, and Covid-19 Among People Who Use Drugs
Challenges in maintaining treatment services for people who use drugs during the Covid-19 pandemic
Canada
Adapting to changing risk environments
‘I don't chase drugs as much anymore, and I'm not dead’
A Legacy of Harm
Punishment and Welfare
Policing Black Lives
Black Feminist Thought
Is member checking the gold standard of quality in qualitative research
The Structure of Aboriginal Child Welfare in Canada
Canadian Drug Policy and the Reproduction of Indigenous Inequities
A Preliminary Assessment of Short-Term Social and Substance Use-Related Outcomes Among Clients of Integrated Safer Opioid Supply Pilot Programs in Toronto, Canada
Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
It’s just a perfect storm”
Experiences of violence during the Covid-19 pandemic among people who use drugs in a Canadian setting
Examining barriers to harm reduction and child welfare services for pregnant women and mothers who use substances using a stigma action framework
It's too much, I'm getting really tired of it’
Challenges of implementing safer supply programs in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic
Problematizing the DSM-5 criteria for opioid use disorder
Pathways between Covid-19 public health responses and increasing overdose risks
Gendered drug policy
Mapping violence and policing as an environmental–structural barrier to health service and syringe availability among substance-using women in street-level sex work
Towards a social harm approach in drug policy
Increased solitary drug use during Covid-19
Covid just kind of opened a can of whoop-ass”
The impact of an unsanctioned compassion club on non-fatal overdose
Prescribed safer opioid supply
I felt for a long time like everything beautiful in me had been taken out”
Overdose among mothers
We get by with a little help from our friends”
It’s Helped Me a Lot, Just Like to Stay Alive”
Socioeconomic consequences of the Covid ‐19 pandemic for people who use drugs
Mothers Who Use Drugs
Understanding Racial Inequities in the Implementation of Harm Reduction Initiatives
Opioid Crisis
Implementation of Safe Supply Alternatives During Intersecting Covid-19 and Overdose Health Emergencies in British Columbia, Canada, 2021
Mapping the Margins
And we just have to keep going
Well, It Should Be Changed for One, Because It's Our Bodies
Women, Harm Reduction and HIV
The intersectional risk environment of people who use drugs
Women's health, men's health, and gender and health
Getting Eyes in the Home
Shared Precarities and Maternal Subjectivities
Health consequences of child removal among Indigenous and non-Indigenous sex workers
Take-home naloxone and the politics of care
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |