S04 SpeakEasy Carol Strike and Gillian Kolla: where research and frontline service delivery meet

UNSW SpeakEasy Podcast

In this second episode from the Harm Reduction International Conference 2019, Carla and Annie catch up with Carol Strike and Gillian Kolla -- legends from the frontlines of the overdose crisis in Toronto, Canada, about police and their attitudes to safe injecting facilities, setting up an unsanctioned safe injecting site in a public park in Toronto and issues in doing research with highly criminalised communities. Links Creating and sustaining cooperative relationships between supervised injection services and police: A qualitative interview study of international stakeholders https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.08.001 A scoping review of harm reduction training for police officers https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.12904 Canada's overdose crisis: authorities are not acting fast enough https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30040-4 Toronto Overdose Prevention Service https://twitter.com/TorontoOPS For more info on SpeakEasy: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/