Historique
Périodique
The Sydney medically supervised injecting centre: a clinical model
(Le centre d'injection supervisé médicalement de Sydney. Un modèle de clinique)
Auteur(s) :
VAN BEEK, I.
Année
2003
Page(s) :
625-638
Langue(s) :
Anglais
ISBN :
0022-0426
Refs biblio. :
12
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
SAN (Santé publique / Public health)
Thésaurus mots-clés
STRUCTURE DE PROXIMITE
;
INJECTION
;
MODELE
;
REDUCTION DES RISQUES ET DES DOMMAGES
Thésaurus géographique
AUSTRALIE
Note générale :
Journal of Drug Issues, 2003, 33, 625-638
Note de contenu :
tabl. ; fig.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
The Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) is the first supervised injecting facility (SIF) in Australia and the English-speaking world. It commenced operations in May 2001 as a trial to be independently evaluated. The MSIC was to be the only SIF in Sydney's Kings Cross, a "red-light" area where the drug-using population had previously injected in public or in illegal "shooting galleries" that had proliferated in nearby commercial sex premises since 1990. The aim of the MSIC is to reduce the public health and public order issues arising from unsupervised and public injecting at a local community level. A clinical service model was developed, which would maximize the number of injecting episodes accommodated in a professionally supervised setting and integrate with the other harm reduction services nearby. In its first two years of operation 4,719 registered IDUs made 88,324 visits to inject at the MSIC. There were 553 drug overdoses (81 % heroin) managed on site, with no fatalities. Among 1,852 client referrals made for further assistance, 44 % were for the treatment of drug dependence. This early experience suggests that the MSIC's clinical model has been acceptable to a significant number of the street-based drug injecting population in this setting. (Author's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Kirketon Rd Ctr, Kings Cross
Australie. Australia.
Australie. Australia.