Involuntary displacement of homeless people may cause significant spikes in mortality, overdoses and hospitalizations CUAnschutz JAMA_current
looks like in real life including their overdose risk and mortality. They then modeled two scenarios over a 10-year time period: no continual displacement and continual involuntary displacement of this population.
In hundreds of different projections, the model showed no feasible scenario, in any city, where continual involuntary displacement improves. Instead, the practice would likely result in a significant increase in morbidity, mortality and a shortened life expectancy, the study said. Josh Barocas, MD, discusses the research behind finding that up to 25% of unhoused people who use drugs could die in 10 years due to involuntary displacement policies including camping bans and sweeps. Credit: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
"Our research shows that these widespread practices that forcibly displace people are clearly impacting the health of this population, particularly when it comes to increasing their overdose risk, so much so that it actually decreases the life expectancy of the entire population," says Josh Barocas, MD, associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and corresponding author.
"Modeling studies like ours give us a sense of whether we're headed in the right or wrong direction. Our study showed that displacement could directly result in a quarter of deaths of this population. This tell us that this practice is taking us in the wrong direction if we want to solve issues around homelessness and
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