A milestone in drug policy: saving the lives of people who use drugs and were homeless in Dublin during the covid-19 pandemic

Collins, John, O'Carroll, Austin and Duffin, Tony (2020) A milestone in drug policy: saving the lives of people who use drugs and were homeless in Dublin during the covid-19 pandemic. LSE Covid 19 Blog (15 Jul 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Dublin has outperformed even best-case scenarios for COVID-19 mortality among homeless and drug-using populations, write Austin O’Carroll, Tony Duffin and John Collins (LSE). When government policy is well coordinated and underpinned by a science-driven and fundamentally pragmatic approach, lives are saved.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE IGA: United States Centre International History
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	19 Aug 2020 12:24
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105941

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