Rate of detoxification service use and its impact among a cohort of supervised injecting facility users
Addiction, Volume 102 Issue 6 Page 916-919 - June 2007
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Evan Wood, Mark W. Tyndall, Ruth Zhang, Julio S. G. Montaner, Thomas Kerr
"Vancouver, Canada recently opened a medically supervised injecting facility (SIF) where injection drug users (IDU) can inject pre-obtained illicit drugs. Critics suggest that the facility does not help IDU to reduce their drug use. The SIF's opening was associated independently with a 30% increase in detoxification service use, and this behaviour was associated with increased rates of long-term addiction treatment initiation and reduced injecting at the SIF."
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