The cost-effectiveness of Vancouver's supervised injection facility

AM Bayoumi, GS Zaric - Cmaj, 2008 - Can Med Assoc
Background: The cost-effectiveness of Canada's only supervised injection facility has not
been rigorously evaluated. We estimated the impact of the facility on survival, rates of HIV …

[HTML][HTML] A cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis of proposed supervised injection facilities in Montreal, Canada

E Jozaghi, AA Reid, MA Andresen - Substance abuse treatment …, 2013 - Springer
Background This paper will determine whether expanding Insite (North America's first and
only supervised injection facility) to more locations in Canada such as Montreal, cost less …

A cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of Vancouver's supervised injection facility

MA Andresen, N Boyd - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: A supervised injection facility (SIF) has been established in North America:
Insite, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a cost …

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 …

Is Vancouver Canada's supervised injection facility cost‐saving?

SD Pinkerton - Addiction, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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

EA Enns, GS Zaric, CJ Strike, JA Jairam, G Kolla… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims Supervised injection facilities (legally sanctioned spaces for
supervised consumption of illicitly obtained drugs) are controversial public health …

[HTML][HTML] Mitigating the heroin crisis in Baltimore, MD, USA: a cost-benefit analysis of a hypothetical supervised injection facility

A Irwin, E Jozaghi, BW Weir, ST Allen, A Lindsay… - Harm reduction …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background In Baltimore, MD, as in many cities throughout the USA, overdose rates
are on the rise due to both the increase of prescription opioid abuse and that of fentanyl and …

[HTML][HTML] A cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis of proposed supervised injection facilities in Ottawa, Canada

E Jozaghi, AA Reid, MA Andresen… - … Treatment, Prevention, and …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) are venues where people who
inject drugs (PWID) have access to a clean and medically supervised environment in which …

Needle exchange programs: an economic evaluation of a local experience

M Gold, A Gafni, P Nelligan, P Millson - Cmaj, 1997 - Can Med Assoc
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether providing a needle exchange program to prevent HIV
transmission among injection drug users would cost less than the health care consequences …

Does evidence support supervised injection sites?

J Ng, C Sutherland, MR Kolber - Canadian Family Physician, 2017 - cfp.ca
Best evidence from cohort and modeling studies suggests that SISs are associated with
lower overdose mortality (88 fewer overdose deaths per 100 000 person-years [PYs]), 67 …