Design considerations for supervised consumption facilities (SCFs): Preferences for facilities where people can inject and smoke drugs

T. M. WATSON ; C. STRIKE ; G. KOLLA ; R. PENN ; J. JAIRAM ; S. HOPKINS ; J. LUCE ; N. DEGANI ; P. MILLSON ; A. M. BAYOUMI | 2013
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.24, n°2, March 2013) Article : Périodique

BACKGROUND: Supervised consumption facilities (SCFs) aim to improve the health and well-being of people who use drugs by offering safer and more hygienic alternatives to the risk environments where people typically use drugs in the community. Pe[...]

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"Drugs don’t have age limits": The challenge of setting age restrictions for supervised injection facilities

T. M. WATSON ; C. STRIKE ; G. KOLLA ; R. PENN ; A. M. BAYOUMI | 2015
Dans Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy (Vol.22, n°4, August 2015) Article : Périodique

Aims: People under age 18 who inject drugs represent a population at risk of health and social harms. Age restrictions at harm reduction programmes often formally exclude this population, but the reason behind such restrictions is lacking in the[...]

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Increasing public support for supervised injection facilities in Ontario, Canada

C. STRIKE ; J. JAIRAM ; G. KOLLA ; P. MILLSON ; S. SHEPHERD ; B. FISCHER ; T. M. WATSON ; A. M. BAYOUMI | 2014
Dans Addiction (Vol.109, n°6, June 2014) Article : Périodique

Aim: To determine the level and changes in public opinion between 2003 and 2009 among adult Canadians about implementation of supervised injection facilities (SIFs) in Canada. Design: Population-based, telephone survey data collected in 2003 a[...]

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Police perceptions of supervised consumption sites (SCSs): a qualitative study

T. M. WATSON ; A. BAYOUMI ; G. KOLLA ; R. PENN ; B. FISCHER ; J. LUCE ; C. STRIKE | 2012
Dans Substance Use and Misuse (Vol.47, n°4, 2012) Article : Périodique

FRANÇAIS : Les policiers sont des intervenants clés dans les villes qui contemplent la mise en place de sites de consommation supervisée (SCS). Nous explorons les perceptions policières des SCS à l'aide de données recueillies entre 2008 et 2010[...]

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Potential cost-effectiveness of supervised injection facilities in Toronto and Ottawa, Canada

E. A. ENNS ; G. S. ZARIC ; C. J. STRIKE ; J. A. JAIRAM ; G. KOLLA ; A. M. BAYOUMI | 2016
Dans Addiction (Vol.111, n°3, March 2016) Article : Périodique

Background and Aims: Supervised injection facilities (legally sanctioned spaces for supervised consumption of illicitly obtained drugs) are controversial public health interventions. We determined the optimal number of facilities in two Canadian[...]

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Preventing injection drug use initiation: State of the evidence and opportunities for the future [Editorial]

D. WERB ; R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; G. KOLLA ; C. STRIKE ; A. H. KRAL ; A. UUSKULA ; D. DES JARLAIS | 2018
Dans Journal of Urban Health (Vol.95, n°1, February 2018) Article : Périodique

Just over 10 years have passed since public health experts called for an update to the "infection risk reduction hierarchy". At the time Vlahov et al. noted that HIV prevention programs for people who inject drugs (PWID), 13% of whom are estimat[...]

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The effectiveness and efficacy of prescribed diacetylmorphine (heroin) in reducing drug-related harm

J. BOWLES ; N. MAGHSOUDI ; S. YOUNG ; S. GRIFFITHS ; G. KOLLA | 2023
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Opioid overdoses have dramatically increased throughout the past 20 years. Overdoses and other harms associated with the use of the unregulated opioid supply have resulted in a consortium of approaches to reduce drug-related harms, which for dec[...]

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