Jennifer Jackson

Jennifer Jackson is a registered nurse and assistant professor in the faculty of nursing at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on improving health services and supporting workers in community-based harm reduction addiction and mental health services. Her recent publications include “Differences in overdose rates by gender at supervised consumption services: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study,” and “Burnout and resilience in critical care nurses: A grounded theory of managing exposure.”

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Give Frontline Workers More Help Dealing With Alberta's Drug Crisis

blog | Nov 20, 2025

The drug-poisoning crisis in Alberta continues unabated, after nearly a decade of record numbers of deaths. Fatalities are the most tragic and visible consequence, but the prevalence of a toxic drug supply also creates ripple effects that impact families, communities, and the health-care workers who seek to mitigate harm, provide care, save lives, and assist the grieving.

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Ripple Effects: The Drug Toxicity Crisis and Its Impact on Frontline Health Workers

research | Nov 06, 2025

Based on a scientific survey of over 500 health workers, this report shows how Alberta's toxic drug crisis impacts frontline health workers as daily issues of inadequate equipment and treatment options, lack of managerial and government support, and insufficient knowledge about drug poisoning put them in a position of having to do more with less.

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