Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market

Police officers are stationed on the frontlines of open-air drug markets and regularly intervene in issues resulting from public drug consumption and overdoses. Police departments are increasingly being asked to adopt harm reduction approaches to deal with the health and safety consequences of drug...

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Main Author: Wight, Hayley (Author)
Contributors: Ratcliffe, Jerry
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Policing and society
Year: 2024, Volume: 34, Issue: 6, Pages: 535–550
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Philadelphia
transit police
overdose
opioid crisis
harm-focused policing
Harm Reduction

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