Protocol of the impact of alternative social assistance disbursement on drug-related harm (TASA) study: a randomized controlled trial to evaluate changes to payment timing and frequency among people who use illicit drugs

• मुख्य लेखकों: Lindsey Richardson (लेखक), Allison Laing (लेखक), M-J Milloy (लेखक), Russ Maynard (लेखक), Bohdan Nosyk (लेखक), Brandon Marshall (लेखक), Eric Grafstein (लेखक), Patricia Daly (लेखक), Evan Wood (लेखक), Julio Montaner (लेखक), Thomas Kerr (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: BMC, 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Abstract Background Government social assistance payments seek to alleviate poverty and address survival needs, but their monthly disbursement may cue increases in illicit drug use. This cue may be magnified when assistance is disbursed simultaneously across the population. Synchronized payments hav...