[HTML][HTML] Should North America's first and only supervised injection facility (InSite) be expanded in British Columbia, Canada?

E Jozaghi, MA Andresen - Harm Reduction Journal, 2013 - Springer
… throughout British Columbia. In addition, this study explores the current status of injection
drug … that have no access to supervised injection facilities such as, Surrey and Victoria, British

[HTML][HTML] Supervised injection facilities in Canada: past, present, and future

T Kerr, S Mitra, MC Kennedy, R McNeil - Harm reduction journal, 2017 - Springer
… drugs (PWID), and over 300 fatal overdoses occurring in the province of British Columbia, …
supervised injection facilities (SIFs) [3]. As in other SIFs internationally, PWID can inject pre-…

Is there a role for potential supervised injection facilities in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada?

E Jozaghi, T Hodgkinson, MA Andresen - Urban Geography, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
… Vancouver, British Columbia for over a decade. The purpose of this study is to determine
whether the current facility needs to be expanded to other locations in British Columbia, Canada…

Potential use of safer injecting facilities among injection drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

T Kerr, E Wood, D Small, A Palepu, MW Tyndall - Cmaj, 2003 - Can Med Assoc
… In this study 92% of IDUs expressed willingness to use a medically supervised safer
injecting facility, and injection of drugs in public was associated with willingness. However, …

[HTML][HTML] Supervised injection facility use and all-cause mortality among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A cohort study

MC Kennedy, K Hayashi, MJ Milloy, E Wood… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… As previously [61,62], we used conservative life expectancy estimates based on data for the
province of British Columbia from Statistics Canada (84.6 years for females and 80.1 years …

Supervised injection facility utilization patterns: a prospective cohort study in Vancouver, Canada

MC Kennedy, DC Klassen, H Dong, MJS Milloy… - American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
… use of a supervised injection facility in Vancouver, Canada. … Of 1,336 people who inject drugs
that were followed for a … of supervised injection facility use cessation while actively injecting

Factors associated with public injecting among users of Vancouver's supervised injection facility

I McKnight, B Maas, E Wood, MW Tyndall… - The American journal …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
injection among a cohort of injection drug users (SEOSI) originally recruited from within
Vancouver's supervised injecting facility (… with public drug injection among SEOSI participants. …

[HTML][HTML] Vancouver's supervised injection facility challenges Canada's drug laws

K Dooling, M Rachlis - Cmaj, 2010 - Can Med Assoc
… In this article, we examine the role of scientific evidence and how a clash of values about
harm reduction eventually led to two courts in the province of British Columbia to decide in …

[HTML][HTML] Safe injection facilities in Canada: Is it time?

T Kerr, A Palepu - CMAJ, 2001 - Can Med Assoc
… In Canada, British Columbia has the highest number of fatal overdoses, about 4.7 per 100
000 population annually, and in recent years illicit drug use has been the leading cause of …

Expanding supervised injection facilities across Canada: lessons from the Vancouver experience

S Young, N Fairbairn - Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2018 - Springer
… The recently published British Columbia Centre on Substance Use operational guidelines
for SIFs highlight the importance of including peers, First Nations Elders, or other non-…