@article{f73f0d7761a94851beee203044e2a6b2,
title = "{\textquoteleft}Safe Supply{\textquoteright} initiatives: Are they a recipe for harm through reduced healthcare input and supply induced toxicity and overdose?",
abstract = "Within the addiction field, some advocates support a suite of de-regulatory policies that aim to reduce harm by providing people who use drugs with a {"}safe supply{"} of pharmaceutical-grade medications. Such initiatives have commenced without the evidence standards normally used to label medication provision as {"}safe.{"} This perspective suggests that continued debate and research in this area acknowledge the potential toxicity of any provided safe supply medications and highlights that these initiatives could result in an unhelpful reduction in interactions between people who use drugs and health care professionals.",
author = "Emmert Roberts and Keith Humphreys",
note = "Funding Information: This work is supported by the corresponding author{\textquoteright}s Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice. The views presented here are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Commonwealth Fund or its directors, officers, or staff. *Correspondence may be sent to Emmert Roberts at the National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King{\textquoteright}s College London, 4 Windsor Walk, London SE58AF, England, or via email at: emmertr.stanford.edu. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, Alcohol Research Documentation Inc. All rights reserved.",
year = "2023",
month = apr,
day = "4",
doi = "10.15288/jsad.23-00054",
language = "English",
volume = "84",
pages = "644--647",
journal = "Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs",
issn = "1937-1888",
publisher = "Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.",
number = "4",
}