Abstract Background Supervised injection services (SISs) have been developed to promote
safer drug injection practices, enhance health-related behaviors among people who inject …

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

There is growing attention across the social sciences to the mobility of people, products, and
knowledge. This entails attempts to extend and/or rework existing understandings of global …

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 …

ABSTRACT Background Vancouver, Canada recently opened a medically supervised
injecting facility (SIF) where injection drug users (IDU) can inject pre‐obtained illicit drugs …

To the Editor: In September 2003, the first safer injecting facility in North America opened in
Vancouver, Canada. Here, injection-drug users can inject preobtained illicit drugs under …

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 …

BACKGROUND: In September 2003, North America's first supervised injection facility (SIF)
opened in Vancouver, Canada. We sought to examine the incidence and characteristics of …

Abstract Concepts of addiction differ across time and place. This article is based on an
international research project currently exploring this variation and change in concepts of …