Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Opportunities to learn and barriers to change crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver Susan Boyd 1 Joy L Johnson2 and Barbara Moffat3 Open Access Address Studies in Policy Practice University of Victoria Canada 2NEXUS School of Nursing University of British Colombia Canada and 3Nursing and Health Behaviour Research Unit School of Nursing University of British Columbia Canada Email Susan Boyd - scboyd@ Joy L Johnson - joyjohnson@ Barbara Moffat - Corresponding author Published 17 November 2008 Received 24 June 2008 Accepted 17 November 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 34 doi l477-75l7-5-34 This article is available from http content 5 l 34 2008 Boyd et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract In 2004 a team comprised of researchers and service providers launched the Safer Crack Use Outreach Research and Education SCORE project in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver British Columbia Canada. The project was aimed at developing a better understanding of the harms associated with crack cocaine smoking and determining the feasibility of introducing specific harm reduction strategies. Specifically in partnership with the community we constructed and distributed kits that contained harm reduction materials. We were particularly interested in understanding what people thought of these kits and how the kits contents were used. To obtain this information we conducted 27 interviews with women and men who used crack cocaine and received safer crack kits. Four broad themes were generated from the data l the context of crack use practices 2 learning transmission of harm .
