Homelessness and water insecurity in the Global North: Trapped in the dwelling paradox

K Meehan, M Beresford, F Amador Cid… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we introduce the “dwelling paradox” to explore how the state actively produces
water insecurity for people experiencing homelessness in the Global North. We explain that …

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) insecurity in unhoused communities of Los Angeles, California

LJ Avelar Portillo, GL Kayser, C Ko, A Vasquez… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Springer
Background Access to water and sanitation is a basic human right; however, in many parts
of the world, communities experience water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) insecurity …

[HTML][HTML] Homelessness and nature across landscapes and disciplines: A literature review

SR Land, MM Derrien - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025 - Elsevier
The complex social-ecological dynamics of homelessness in natural resource management
have become increasingly apparent in recent years. Systematically understanding and …

Drug checking in the fentanyl era: utilization and interest among people who inject drugs in San Diego, California

K Bailey, D Abramovitz, I Artamonova… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background In North America, overdose rates have steeply risen over the past five
years, largely due to the ubiquity of illicitly manufactured fentanyls in the drug supply. Drug …

Illicit fentanyl use and hepatitis C virus seroconversion among people who inject drugs in Tijuana and San Diego: results from a binational cohort study

JR Friedman, D Abramovitz, B Skaathun… - Clinical Infectious …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) increases overdose mortality, but its role in
infectious disease transmission is unknown. We examined whether IMF use predicts …

WaSH insecurity and anxiety among people who inject drugs in the Tijuana-San Diego border region

LJ Avelar Portillo, A Calderón-Villarreal… - BMC Public Health, 2024 - Springer
Background Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) insecurity increases the risk of water-
related diseases. However, limited research has been conducted on psychosocial distress …

Water, sanitation, and hygiene access among people who inject drugs in Tijuana and San Diego in 2020–2021: a cross-sectional study

A Calderón-Villarreal, LJ Avelar Portillo… - International Journal for …, 2024 - Springer
Background Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access is critical to public health and
human dignity. People who inject drugs (PWID) experience stigma and structural violence …

Fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine-based counterfeit pills sold at tourist-oriented pharmacies in Mexico: an ethnographic and drug checking study

J Friedman, M Godvin, C Molina, R Romero… - Drug and alcohol …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Fentanyl-and methamphetamine-based counterfeit prescription drugs have
driven escalating overdose death rates in the US, however their presence in Mexico has not …

A brief instrument measuring the water, sanitation and hygiene domain of menstrual health among women who inject drugs

A Calderón-Villarreal, LJ Avelar Portillo, D Abramovitz… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Domains of adequate menstrual health (MH) include access to water,
sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). People who menstruate with social disadvantages—such …

[HTML][HTML] Water, sanitation and hygiene insecurity predict abscess incidence among people who inject drugs in a binational US–Mexico metropolitan area: A …

A Calderón-Villarreal, D Abramovitz, LJA Portillo… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction People who inject drugs (PWID) are at high risk of develo** injection-related
infections, including abscesses. Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are key …