Elaine Hyshka Publications

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2020

• Brooks HL, Husband C, Taylor M, Sherrin A, Hyshka E. (2020). Supporting the full participation of people who use drugs in policy fora: provision of a temporary, conference-based overdose prevention site. In press. International Journal of Drug Policy.
• Dong KA, Brouwer J, Johnston C, Hyshka E. (2020). Supervised consumption services for acute care hospital inpatients. CMAJ. 192:E476-9. DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.191365.
• Jenkins, El, Slemon, A., Morris, H., Hyshka, E., Schulz, P., Haines-Saah, R.J. (2020). Bereaved mothers’ engagement in drug policy reform: A multisite qualitative analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103011
• Milaney, K., Williams, N., Lockerbie, S.L., Dutton, D.J., Hyshka, E. (2020). Recognizing and responding to women experiencing homelessness with gendered and trauma-informed care. BMC Public Health. 20, 397.
• Pawliuk C, Park M, Buxton JA on behalf of the Overdose Crisis Knowledge Synthesis Working Group. (2020). Legal approaches and government policies enacted to address the overdose epidemic: A scoping review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis. doi: 10.11124/JBISRIR-D-19-00296.
• Round JM, Lee C, Hanlon JG, Hyshka E, Dyck J, Eurich D. (2020). Changes in patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) scores in adults with medical authorization for cannabis. BMC Public Health. 20:987. DOI: 1186/s12889-020-09089-3.

2019

• Brooks HL, O’Brien D, Salvalaggio G, Dong K, Hyshka E. (2019). Uptake into a bedside needle and syringe program for acute care inpatients who inject drugs. Drug & Alcohol Review.
• Eurich D, Lee C, Zongo A, Minhas-Sandhu JK, Hanlon JG, Hyshka E, Dyck J. (2019). Cohort study of medical cannabis authorisation and healthcare utilisation in 2014-2017 in Ontario, Canada. J Epidemiol Community Health. pii: jech-2019-212438.
• Hyshka, E., Morris, H., Anderson-Baron, J., Nixon, L., Dong, K., & Salvalaggio, G. (2019). Patient perspectives on a harm reduction-oriented addiction medicine consultation team implemented in a large acute care hospital. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 204, 107523.
• Hyshka, E., Anderson-Baron, L., Pugh, A., Belle-Isle, L., Hathaway, A., Pauly, B., Strike, C., Asbridge, M., Dell, C., McBride, K., Tupper, K., Wild, C. (2019). Principles, practice, and policy vacuums: Policy actor views on provincial/territorial harm reduction policy in Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy. 71, 142-149.
• Lee C, Voaklander D, Minhas-Sandhu JK, Dyck J, Hanlon JG, Hyshka E, Eurich DT. (2019). Cohort study of medical cannabis authorizations and motor vehicle accident-related healthcare visits in 2014-2017 in Ontario, Canada. Revision requested. Injury Prevention.
• Morris H, Hagen L, Hyshka E, Francescutti LH. (2019). Empowering Students and Influencing Policy Change Through Experiential Public Health Advocacy Education. J Nurs Educ. 58(12), 698-703.
• O’Brien, D. C., Dabbs, D., Dong, K., Veugelers, P. J., & Hyshka, E. (2019). Patient characteristics associated with being offered take home naloxone in a busy, urban emergency department: A retrospective chart review. BMC Health Services Research. 19(1), 1-12.
• Watson TM, Valleriani J, Hyshka E, Rueda S. (2019). Cannabis legalization in the provinces and territories: Missing opportunities to effectively educate youth? Canadian Journal of Public Health. 110(4), 472-475.
• Watson TM, Hyshka E, Bonato S, Rueda S. (2019). Early-stage cannabis regulatory policy planning across Canada’s four largest provinces: A descriptive overview. Substance Use & Misuse. 54(10), 1691-1704.
• Wild, C., Kozie, J., Anderson-Barron, J., Hathaway, J., McCurdy, A., Xu, X., . . . Hyshka, E. (2019). Media coverage of harm reduction, 2000-2016: A content analysis of tone, topics, and interventions in Canadian print news. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 205, 107599.
• Yakovenko, I., Hyshka, E., Tyrrell, L., & Wild, T. (2019). Willingness to participate in hepatitis C vaccine trials among socially marginalized people who use drugs. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 101, 67-71.

2018

• Brooks HL, Kassam S, Salvalaggio G, Hyshka E. (2018). Implementing managed alcohol programs in hospital settings: A review of academic and grey literature. Drug Alcohol Rev. 37 Suppl 1:S145-S155.

2017

• Hyshka E., Anderson J.T., Wild T.C. (2017). Perceived unmet need and barriers to care amongst street-involved people who use illicit drugs.  Drug and Alcohol Review. 36(3), 295-304.
• Hyshka, E., Anderson-Baron,J., Karekezi, K., Belle-Isle, L., Elliott, R., Pauly, B., Strike, C., Asbridge, M., Dell, C., McBride, K., Hathaway, A., & Wild, T.C. (2017).  Harm reduction in name but not substance: A comparative analysis of Canadian provincial and territorial policy frameworks. Harm Reduction Journal, 14,50.
• Hyshka, E., Karekezi, K., Tan, B., Slater, L.G., Jahrig, J., & Wild, T.C. (2017).  The role of consumer perspectives in estimating population need for substance use services: A scoping review.  BMC Health Services Research, 36(3),295-304.
• Wild, T., Pauly, B., Belle-Isle, L., Cavalieri, W., Elliott, R., Strike, C., Tupper, K., Hathaway, A., Dell, C., MacPherson, D., Sinclair, C., Karekezi, K., Tan, B., Hyshka, E. (2017) Canadian Harm Reduction Policies: A Comparative Content Analysis of Provincial and Territorial Documents, 2000-2015”. International Journal of Drug Policy. 45, 9-17.

2016

• Kirst M, Kolar K, Chaiton M, Schwartz R, Emerson B, Hyshka E, Jesseman R, Lucas P, Solomon R, Thomas G. (2016). A common public health-oriented policy framework for cannabis, alcohol and tobacco in Canada? Can J Public Health. 106(8):e474-6.
• Salvalaggio, G., Dong, K.A., Hyshka, E., Nixon, L., Lavergne, K., Nicol, J., Louis, M., Lockerbie, S., Bristowe, M., Leske, J., Rosychuk, R.J., Mrklas, K., Surood, S., & Wild, T.C. (2016). Enhanced multidisciplinary care for inner city patients with high acute care use: Study protocol. Canadian Journal of Addiction. 7(3),34-41.

2015 and earlier

• Hyshka E, Bubela T, Wild TC. (2013). Prospects for scaling-up supervised injection facilities in Canada: the role of evidence in legal and political decision-making. Addiction. 108(3), 468-76.
• Kerr T, Small W, Hyshka E, Maher L, Shannon K. (2013). ‘It’s more about the heroin’: injection drug users’ response to an overdose warning campaign in a Canadian setting. Addiction. 108(7), 1270-6.
• Hyshka E, Strathdee S, Wood E, Kerr T. (2012). Needle exchange and the HIV epidemic in Vancouver: lessons learned from 15 years of research. Int J Drug Policy. 23(4), 261-70.
• Hyshka E, Butler-McPhee J, Elliott R, Wood E, Kerr T. (2012). Canada moving backwards on illegal drugs. Can J Public Health. 103(2), 125-7.
• Hyshka E, Erickson PG, Hathaway A. (2011). The time for marijuana decriminalization has come again . . . and again. Criminal Law Bulletin. 47(2):258-275.
• Erickson PG, Hyshka E. (2010). Four decades of cannabis criminals in Canada 1970-2010. Amsterdam Law Forum. 2(4):14.
• Hathaway A, Hyshka E, Erickson PG, Asbridge M, Brochu S, Cousineau MM, Duff C, Marsh D. (2010). Whither RDS? An investigation of Respondent Driven Sampling as a method of recruiting mainstream marijuana users. Harm Reduction Journal. 7:15.
• Hyshka E. (2009). The Saga Continues: Canadian Legislative Attempts to Reform Cannabis Law in the Twenty-First Century. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 51(1), 73–91.
• Hyshka, E. (2009). Turning failure into success: what does the case of Western Australia tell us about Canadian cannabis policy-making? Policy Studies. 30(5), 513–531.
• Kerr T, Small W, Hyshka E, Maher L, Shannon K. (2013). ‘It’s more about the heroin’: injection drug users’ response to an overdose warning campaign in a Canadian setting. Addiction. 108(7), 1270-6.