Service Uptake and Characteristics of Injection Drug Users Utilizing North America’s First Medically Supervised Safer Injecting Facility

In 2003, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, opened North America’s first government-sanctioned safer injecting facility, where injection drug users (IDUs) can inject preobtained illicit drugs under the supervision of nurses. Use of the service by IDUs was followed by measurable reductions in p...

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Auteurs principaux: Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W., Qui, Zhenguo, Zhang, Ruth, Montaner, Julio S. G., Kerr, Thomas
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: © American Journal of Public Health 2006 2006
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Field Action Report
Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470579/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571703
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2004.057828
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