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

Context Supervised injection facilities are harm reduction interventions that allow people
who inject drugs to use previously obtained substances under the supervision of health …

'The Globalization of Addiction'presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction.
Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to …

Canada has long contended with harms arising from injection drug use. In response to
epidemics of HIV infection and overdose in Vancouver in the mid-1990s, a range of actors …

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

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 …

Harm reduction is both a policy approach and used to describe a specific set of
interventions. These interventions aim to reduce the harms associated with drug use …

Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an elevated risk of fatal overdose in the
first year after experiencing a non-fatal event. Such non-fatal events may also result in …

The primary response to the harms associated with illicit injection drug use in most settings
has involved intensifying law enforcement in an effort to limit the supply and use of drugs …

Safer injection facilities provide medical supervision for illicit drug injections. We aimed to
examine factors associated with syringe sharing in a community-recruited cohort of illicit …