Background N orth A merica's first supervised injection facility—I nsite—opened in V
ancouver in 2003 under a special federal legal exemption. Insite has faced significant …

Overdose is a significant health risk for people who use illicit drugs, with injection drug users
(IDU) experiencing a particularly high burden of overdose-attributed mortality (Bargagli et …

In many cities, infectious disease and overdose epidemics are occurring among illicit
injection drug users (IDUs). To reduce these concerns, Vancouver opened a supervised …

Background Supervised injection services (SIS) have been shown to reduce the public-and
individual-level harms associated with injection drug use. While SIS feasibility research has …

While the public health benefits of supervised injection facilities (SIFs) have been well
documented, there is a lack of research examining the views of injection drug users (IDU) …

ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether Vancouver's Insite supervised injection facility
and syringe exchange programs are cost‐saving—that is, are the savings due to averted …

Background: Research predicting the public health and fiscal impact of Supervised Injection
Facilities (SIFs), across different cities in Canada, has reported positive results on the …

In recent years, controversial interventions such as 'heroin-assisted treatment'(HAT) and
'supervised injection facilities'(SIFs) have been established in attempts to minimise the high …

North America's only government-sanctioned supervised injection facility, Insite, has been
subjected to substantial research. This research has found evidence for numerous public …

Background The opioid epidemic in the United States has resulted in over 42,000 US opioid
overdose fatalities in 2016 alone. In New York City (NYC) opioid overdoses have reached a …