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Article de Périodique
Attendance at supervised injecting facilities and use of detoxification services (Letter to the Editor) (2006)
Auteur(s) :
E. WOOD ;
M. W. TYNDALL ;
R. ZHANG ;
STOLTZ J. A. ;
C. LAI ;
J. S. G. MONTANER ;
T. KERR
Article en page(s) :
2512-2514
Refs biblio. :
5
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Thésaurus mots-clés
INJECTION
;
DESINTOXICATION
;
SALLE DE CONSOMMATION A MOINDRE RISQUE
;
STRUCTURE DE PROXIMITE
;
CURE DE DESINTOXICATION
;
EVALUATION
;
OBSERVANCE DU TRAITEMENT
Thésaurus géographique
CANADA
Résumé :
In September 2003, the first safer injecting facility in North America opened in Vancouver, Canada. Here, injection-drug users can inject preobtained illicit drugs under medical supervision. A concern regarding such facilities is that they may lessen the likelihood that injection-drug users will seek addiction-treatment services. Randomized trials are lacking to address this concern. We assessed factors associated with time to entry into a detoxification program at one of the city's three detoxification centers. We used data collected by means of a questionnaire as part of a cohort study (supported by Health Canada) of persons who use supervised injecting facilities, called the Scientific Evaluation of Supervised Injecting (SEOSI) cohort. (Extract of the publication)
Affiliation :
Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada