dr. amy salmon

Name: Salmon, Dr. Amy
Degree: BA, PhD
Academic Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor
Academic Department:

UBC School of Population and Public Health

Academic Division:  
Address:

BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre

Room E204 - 4500 Oak Street
Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1

Phone: 604 875 2424 ext 4880
Fax: 604 875 3895
Email: asalmon@cw.bc.ca
Research Interests:

Substance Use and Addiction

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Harm Reduction

Access & Barriers to Care for Women who use   Substances

Research Projects:

Staying Safe in Vancouver: Identifying Strategies Used by Long-Term Injection Drug Users to Avoid HIV and HCV Infection

Healing Ourselves: Mothers Recovering from Grief and Loss in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Beyond plain language: Exploring strategies for community-driven knowledge translation by and for women with addictions

Developing a protocol for respectful health research involving substance-using women

Substance-using women and experiences of primary health care in Vancouver's downtown eastside

Building a better practice in maternal substance use and addition

Selected Publications:

Bell, K and A. Salmon (2008) Chronic pain, drug-seeking, and “pseudo addiction”: Making addiction work for “nice” patients? International Journal of Drug Policy. International Journal of Drug Policy. Corrected Online Proof, doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2008.06.002, 1-9.

Bell, K., D. McNaughton, and A. Salmon (2008). Medicine, Morality, and Mothering: Public Health Discourses on Fetal Alcohol Exposure, Smoking Around Children, and Childhood Overnutrition.Critical Public Health Critical Public Health, X(X): 1-16.

Salmon, A. (2007). Walking the Talk: How Participatory Interview Methods Can Democratize Research.Qualitative Health Research 17(5). 982-993.

Salmon, A.(2007). Adaptation and Decolonization: The Role of ‘Culturally Appropriate’ Health Education in the Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Canadian Journal of Native Education 30(2).[September 2007].

Salmon, A. (2007) Dis/Abling States, Dis/Abling Citizenship: Young Aboriginal Mothers, Substantive Citizenship, and the Medicalization of FAS/FAE . Journal of Critical Education Policy 5(2). [November 2007]. Open-access Online at www.jceps.org.

Salmon, A. (2007) Beyond Shame and Blame: Aboriginal Mothers, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, and Barriers to Care. Highs and Lows: Women and Substance in Canada. L. Greaves and N. Poole (eds). Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health .

Salmon, A. (2006). Dangerous Prescriptions? Benzodiazepine Use Among Aboriginal Senior Women. Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health Research Bulletin 5:1 (Spring 2006). 4-8.

Poole, N., A. Salmon, and L. Greaves (2006). Drinking More and Enjoying it Less: Girls, Women and Alcohol. Visions: BC's Mental Health and Addictions Journal 2:9. 11-12.

 

Salmon, A., N. Poole, M. Morrow, L. Greaves, R. Ingram, & A. Pederson (2006) Improving Conditions: Integrating Sex and Gender in Federal Policy Development on Mental Health/ Illness and Addictions. Vancouver: BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health

Salmon, A. (2004). 'It Takes a Community': Constructing Aboriginal Mothers and Children with FAS/FAE as Objects of Moral Panic in/through a FAS/FAE Prevention Policy . Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 6(1). 112-123.

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