'It’s a Bit of a Double-Edged Sword': Motivation and Personal Impact of Bereaved Mothers’ Advocacy for Drug Policy Reform
| العنوان: | 'It’s a Bit of a Double-Edged Sword': Motivation and Personal Impact of Bereaved Mothers’ Advocacy for Drug Policy Reform |
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| المؤلفون: | Elaine Hyshka, Rebecca J. Haines-Saah, Petra Schulz, Emily K. Jenkins, Heather Morris |
| المصدر: | Qualitative Health Research UnpayWall ORCID Microsoft Academic Graph PubMed Central |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Canada, family, media_common.quotation_subject, 030508 substance abuse, Stigma (botany), Mothers, substance use, Criminology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Policy advocacy, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, harm reduction, Empowerment, Child, drug policy, Research Articles, media_common, Harm reduction, Motivation, advocacy, Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, bereavement, Drug policy reform, 3. Good health, Policy, Pharmaceutical Preparations, qualitative narrative, Grief, Female, 0305 other medical science, Psychology, Qualitative research |
| الوصف: | North America’s overdose crisis is an urgent public health issue that has resulted in thousands of deaths. As the crisis began to take hold across Canada in 2016, bereaved parents, mainly mothers, emerged as vocal advocates for drug policy reform and harm reduction, using their stories to challenge the stigma of drug-related death. In 2017, we launched a qualitative research partnership with leading family organizations in Canada, conducting interviews with 43 mothers whose children had died from substance use, to understand their experiences of drug policy advocacy. Our findings showed that participants’ motivations for engaging in advocacy were rooted in their experiences of grief, and that advocacy led to feelings of empowerment and connection to others. Our research suggests that advocacy can be cathartic and associated with healing from grief, but that “going public” in sharing a family story of substance use death can also have a considerable personal cost. |
| تدمد: | 1552-7557 1049-7323 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::858d416a97fa97c5204e4068a4ef63c4 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34525864 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....858d416a97fa97c5204e4068a4ef63c4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15527557 10497323 |
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