Helping men build better intimate partner relationships: Canadian provider perspectives.
The aim of this study was to describe the strategies used by Canadian healthcare providers to assist men in strengthening their intimate partner relationships.
Contributors to positive mental health among youth: a qualitative study in British Columbia, Canada
This study sought to explore youth’s perspectives and beliefs about mental health from a strengths-based perspective, including identifying factors which enable them to feel supported.
Weeding out the information: An ethnographic approach to exploring how young people make sense of the evidence on cannabis
Contradictory evidence on cannabis adds to the climate of confusion regarding the health harms related to cannabis use. This is particularly true for young people as they encounter and make sense of opposing information on cannabis.
Developing Harm Reduction in the context of youth substance use: Insights from a multi-site qualitative analysis of young people’s harm minimization strategies
Youth substance use programming and educational strategies are frequently informed by prevention approaches that emphasize abstinence goals, which often do not resonate with youth in their lack of acknowledgment of young people's social context and how young people perceive positive effects of substance use.
Parents are the best prevention’? Troubling assumptions in cannabis policy discourses in the context of legalization in Canada
Canada has announced that it will legalize cannabis on October 17, 2018, and as a result of this impending drug law reform the need to develop prevention resources and drug education " in schools, in public health, and for parents " has emerged as a public concern and a policy priority.
Disrupting assumptions of risky play in the context of structural marginalization: A community engagement project in a Canadian inner-city neighbourhood
Play is a complex, taken-for-granted activity that is often assumed to be universal in how it is conceptualized and experienced. In a global context, play has been identified as a human right for all children (UNICEF, 2006).
“You can’t chain a dog to a porch”: A multisite qualitative analysis of youth narratives of parental approaches to substance use
Reducing harms of youth substance use is a global priority, with parents identified as a key target for efforts to mitigate these harms. Much of the research informing parental responses to youth substance use are grounded in abstinence and critiqued as ineffective and unresponsive to youth contexts. AI-based Summary: In simple terms: the study found that strict “zero tolerance” rules about drugs or alcohol—where parents forbid any use—don’t really work [...]
“Am I gonna get in trouble for acknowledging my will to be safe?”: Identifying the experiences of young sexual minority men and substance use in the context of an opioid overdose crisis
North America and other parts of the globe are in the midst of a public health emergency related to opioid overdoses and a highly contaminated illicit drug supply.
Bereaved mothers’ engagement in drug policy reform: A multisite qualitative analysis
Globally, a tainted drug supply is claiming the lives of tens of thousands of people who use drugs and current measures are not quelling this crisis.
“It’s a bit of a double-edged sword”: Motivation and personal impact of bereaved mothers’ advocacy for drug policy reform
North America's overdose crisis is an urgent public health issue that has resulted in thousands of deaths. As the crisis began to take hold across Canada in 2016, bereaved parents, mainly mothers, emerged as vocal advocates for drug policy reform and harm reduction, using their stories to challenge the stigma of drug-related death.
