Publications:

• Ministry of Health Decriminalization Evaluation Reports. Available here.

• Gaudreault, A., Gibb, M., Talarico, R., Fischer, B., Hall, W., & Myran, D. T. Impact of the first year of British Columbia's decriminalization of drug possession for personal use on drug crime in Canada. The International journal on drug policy. 2025;146, 105042. Available here.

• Kuzma-Hunt, A. G., Zhao, J., Urbanoski, K., Lira, J. A. S., & Naimi, T. Evaluation of decriminalizing small amounts of illicit drugs in Victoria, BC: A seasonally adjusted interrupted time-series analysis of police data. The International journal on drug policy. 2025;146, 105063. Available here.

• Singh Kelsall T, Godfrey D, McDermid J. Probing trends of opioid seizures and drug checking samples under a nascent “decriminalization” framework in Vancouver, Canada. Drug Science, Policy and Law. 2025;11. Available here.

• McAdam, E., Milloy, M. J., Sayre, E. C., Verdicchio, C., Sedgemore, K. O., May, H., Pranteau, S., Corriveau, D., Friesen, D., Fleury, M., Fast, D., & DeBeck, K. Policing and access to harm reduction services among young people who use drugs and young Indigenous people who use drugs before and after the pilot implementation of decriminalization of personal possession. The International journal on drug policy. 2025;146, 105068. Available here.

• Ali, F., Chellew Paternostro, S., Imtiaz, S., Russell, C., Asbridge, M., Degenhardt, L., Hyshka, E., Lock, K., Socias, M. E., Werb, D., & Rehm, J. Framing decriminalization: A mixed-methods study on media narratives, government resources, misinformation, and public support of British Columbia's drug decriminalization policy. The International journal on drug policy. 2026;148, 105123. Available here.