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Alissa Greer

Observed names: A. Greer, Alissa M Greer, Alissa M. Greer, Alissa Merielle Greer, Greer, Alissa
Observed institutions: University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Toronto, University of Victoria, BC Centre for Disease Control, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
ORCID: 0000-0002-8702-5694
Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-8702-5694
OpenAlex ID: A5037509232
“Criminalization Causes the Stigma”: Perspectives From People Who Use Drugs
2023 · Benjamin D. Scher, Scott D. Neufeld, et al. · Contemporary Drug Problems · 88
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Drug quality assessment practices and communication of drug alerts among people who use drugs
2015 · Yuko Soukup-Baljak, Alissa M. Greer, et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 74
Participant, peer and PEEP: considerations and strategies for involving people who have used illicit substances as assistants and advisors in research
2018 · Alissa M. Greer, Ashraf Amlani, et al. · BMC Public Health · 60
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‘Peer’ work as precarious: A qualitative study of work conditions and experiences of people who use drugs engaged in harm reduction work
2020 · A. Greer, V. Bungay, et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 59
Pain as a risk factor for substance use: a qualitative study of people who use drugs in British Columbia, Canada
2018 · Pauline Voon, Alissa M. Greer, et al. · Harm Reduction Journal · 56
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The details of decriminalization: Designing a non-criminal response to the possession of drugs for personal use
2022 · Alissa Greer, Matt Bonn, et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 55
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“It's like super structural” – Overdose experiences of youth who use drugs and police in three non-metropolitan cities across British Columbia
2019 · Marion Selfridge, Alissa Greer, et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 54
“It's an emotional roller coaster… But sometimes it's fucking awesome”: Meaning and motivation of work for peers in overdose response environments in British Columbia
2020 · Bernadette (Bernie) Pauly, Zahra Mamdani, et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 52
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Peer engagement barriers and enablers: insights from people who use drugs in British Columbia, Canada
2019 · Alissa M. Greer, Ashraf Amlani, et al. · Canadian Journal of Public Health · 52
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The legal regulation of drugs and role of government: Perspectives from people who use drugs
2019 · Alissa Greer, Alison Ritter · Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 46
Simple possession as a ‘tool’: Drug law enforcement practices among police officers in the context of depenalization in British Columbia, Canada
2021 · Alissa Greer, Naomi Zakimi, et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 44
Total systems failure: police officers’ perspectives on the impacts of the justice, health, and social service systems on people who use drugs
2022 · Amanda Butler, Naomi Zakimi, et al. · Harm Reduction Journal · 40
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Organizational support for frontline harm reduction and systems navigation work among workers with living and lived experience: qualitative findings from British Columbia, Canada
2021 · A. Greer, J. A. Buxton, et al. · Harm Reduction Journal · 32
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Young People Who Use Drugs Views Toward the Power and Authority of Police Officers
2021 · Alissa Greer, Marion Selfridge, et al. · Contemporary Drug Problems · 29
Police officers’ knowledge, understanding and implementation of the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act in BC, Canada
2021 · Jessica Xavier, Alissa Greer, et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 29
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Too Many Hats? The Role of Police Officers in Drug Enforcement and the Community
2021 · Naomi Zakimi, Alissa Greer, et al. · Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice · 28
“There are solutions and I think we're still working in the problem”: The limitations of decriminalization under the good Samaritan drug overdose act and lessons from an evaluation in British Columbia, Canada
2022 · Jessica Xavier, Alissa Greer, et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 27
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‘We are the first responders’: overdose response experiences and perspectives among peers in British Columbia
2022 · Zahra Mamdani, Jackson P. Loyal, et al. · Drugs Education Prevention and Policy · 23
The challenges, opportunities and strategies of engaging young people who use drugs in harm reduction: insights from young people with lived and living experience
2022 · M-J Stowe, Orsi Feher, et al. · Harm Reduction Journal · 22
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Police Encounters and Experiences among Youths and Adults Who Use Drugs: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings of a Cross-Sectional Study in Victoria, British Columbia
2018 · Alissa Greer, Justin Sorge, et al. · Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale · 22
Alcohol Outlet Densities and Alcohol Price: The B ritish C olumbia Experiment in the Partial Privatization of Alcohol Sales Off‐Premise
2013 · Andrew J. Treno, William R. Ponicki, et al. · Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research · 22
Police discretion to charge young people who use drugs prior to cannabis legalization in British Columbia, Canada: a brief report of quantitative findings
2020 · Alissa Greer, Justin Sorge, et al. · Drugs Education Prevention and Policy · 21
“2.5 g, I could do that before noon”: a qualitative study on people who use drugs’ perspectives on the impacts of British Columbia’s decriminalization of illegal drugs threshold limit
2023 · Farihah Ali, Cayley Russell, et al. · Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy · 19
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The decriminalization of illicit drugs in British Columbia: a national evaluation protocol
2024 · Cayley Russell, Farihah Ali, et al. · BMC Public Health · 18
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“Accidental Intimacies”: Reconsidering Bodily Encounters Between Police and Young People Who Use Drugs
2020 · Marion Selfridge, Lisa Mitchell, et al. · Contemporary Drug Problems · 18
Works count: 62
Citation count: 1,148
H-index: 21
I10-index: 33
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