Abstract Purpose of Review Supervised drug consumption facilities (SCFs) have
increasingly been implemented in response to public health and public order concerns …

Injecting drug users (IDUs) are at high risk for infection by human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) and other blood-borne pathogens. In the United States, IDUs account for nearly one …

Background: North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility for illicit
injection drug users was opened in Vancouver on Sept. 22, 2003. Although similar facilities …

OBJECTIVES: We tested whether higher levels of social capital on college campuses
protected against individual risks of binge drinking. METHODS: We used a nationally …

BACKGROUND: Vancouver, Canada has a pilot supervised injecting facility (SIF), where
individuals can inject pre-obtained drugs under the supervision of medical staff. There has …

Problem Illicit use of injected drugs is linked with high rates of HIV infection and fatal
overdose, as well as community concerns about public drug use. Supervised injecting …

North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) recently opened in
Vancouver, Canada. One of the concerns prior to the SIF's opening was that the facility might …

3.4 Depenalisation and the harms associated with criminal penalties for drug use 3.5
Information, Education and Communication 3.6 Safer injecting and other 'drug consumption …

Many Canadian cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose epidemics
among injection drug users (IDUs). In particular, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and …

eedle exchange programs (NEPs) permit injection drug users (IDUs) to exchange potentially
contaminated syringes for sterile ones, with the aim of decreasing the circulation of …