Supervised injection services: what has been demonstrated? A systematic literature review

C Potier, V Laprévote, F Dubois-Arber… - Drug and alcohol …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Supervised injection services (SISs) have been developed to promote
safer drug injection practices, enhance health-related behaviors among people who inject …

A scoping review of qualitative research on barriers and facilitators to the use of supervised consumption services

A Ivsins, A Warnock, W Small, C Strike, T Kerr… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A substantial body of evidence demonstrates that supervised consumption services (SCS)
mitigate a variety of drug-related harms, including decreasing overdose deaths, infectious …

[HTML][HTML] Experiences with compounding surveillance and social control as a barrier to safe consumption service access

C Greene, MM Urbanik, R Geldart - SSM-qualitative research in health, 2022 - Elsevier
Barriers to accessing supervised consumption services are well documented in the
literature. Police and security presence in the areas surrounding these sites are two such …

A cost-benefit analysis of a potential supervised injection facility in San Francisco, California, USA

A Irwin, E Jozaghi, RN Bluthenthal… - Journal of Drug …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) have been shown to reduce infection, prevent overdose
deaths, and increase treatment uptake. The United States is in the midst of an opioid …

A qualitative comparison of how people who use drugs' perceptions and experiences of policing affect supervised consumption services access in two cities

MM Urbanik, K Maier, C Greene - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Police presence near Supervised Consumption Services (SCS) and
other harm reduction services has been shown to hamper access to these critical facilities …

Healthy city: global systematic scoping review of city initiatives to improve health with policy recommendations

S Danielli, H Ashrafian, A Darzi - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background Global health will increasingly be determined by cities. Currently over half of the
world's population, over 4 billion people, live in cities. This systematic scoping review has …

Drug consumption rooms: A systematic review of evaluation methodologies

V Belackova, AM Salmon, CA Day… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Issues Drug consumptions rooms (DCR) and supervised injecting facilities (SIF) are
expanding internationally. Previous reviews have not systematically addressed evaluation …

Peer-engagement and its role in reducing the risky behavior among crack and methamphetamine smokers of the Downtown Eastside community of Vancouver …

E Jozaghi, H Lampkin, MA Andresen - Harm reduction journal, 2016 - Springer
Background The role of peers (former or current drug users) in reducing risky behavior
within methamphetamine and crack smokers has not been well described or researched …

Health programmes and services addressing the prevention and management of infectious diseases in people who inject drugs in Canada: a systematic integrative …

K Bouzanis, S Joshi, C Lokker, S Pavalagantharajah… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives People who inject drugs (PWID) experience a high burden of injection drug use-
related infectious disease and challenges in accessing adequate care. This study sought to …

Assessing pharmacy student experience with, knowledge of and attitudes towards harm reduction: illuminating barriers to pharmacist-led harm reduction

LR Mahon, AN Hawthorne, J Lee, H Blue… - Harm reduction journal, 2018 - Springer
Background As the burden from the opioid epidemic continues to increase in the state of
Minnesota and across the nation, the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy seeks to …