COVID-19-Enacting a 'new normal' for people who use drugs
COVID-19-Enacting a 'new normal' for people who use drugs
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DOI：
10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102832
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Guarinieri, Mauro
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作者：
Chang, Judy;Agliata, Jake;Guarinieri, Mauro
COVID-19危机放大了现有的社会、经济和政治不平等。吸毒者由于被定罪和污名化而特别脆弱，他们往往面临潜在的健康问题，贫困率更高，失业和无家可归，以及无法获得重要资源-使他们面临更大的感染风险。另一方面，COVID-19提供了一个机会，让我们面对过去的错误，重新谈判新的社会契约。吸毒者国际网络认为，这场危机必须成为重新思考惩罚的作用、改革制度和努力结束禁毒战争的机会。这篇评论向联合国机构、政府、捐助机构、学术界、研究人员和民间社会提出了一系列建议，要求这些行为者与吸毒者一起努力，在团结与合作、保护健康、恢复权利和尊严的基础上制定新的现实，最重要的是动员起来赢得和平。
The COVID-19 crisis has magnified existing social, economic and political inequities. People who use drugs are particularly vulnerable due to criminalisation and stigma and often experience underlying health conditions, higher rates of poverty, unemployment and homelessness, as well as a lack of access to vital resources - putting them at greater risk of infection. On the other hand, COVID-19 presents an opportunity to confront the mistakes of the past and re-negotiate a new social contract. The International Network of People who use Drugs (INPUD) believe that this crisis must be an occasion to rethink the function of punishment, to reform the system and to work towards ending the war on drugs. This commentary presents a set of recommendations to UN agencies, governments, donor agencies, academics, researchers and civil society, challenging these actors to work alongside people who use drugs to enact a new reality based on solidarity and cooperation, protection of health, restoration of rights and dignity and most importantly to mobilise to win the peace.