The Potential Public Health and Community Impacts of Safer Injecting Facilities: Evidence From a Cohort of Injection Drug User

E Wood, T Kerr, PM Spittal, K Li, W Small… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Background: Although medically supervised safer injecting facilities (SIFs) remain untested
in North America, their implementation is currently being debated. Reluctance of health …

[HTML][HTML] The health care and fiscal costs of the illicit drug use epidemic: the impact of conventional drug control strategies

E Wood, T Kerr, PM Spittal, MW Tyndall… - BC Med J, 2003 - bcmj.org
In 1997 a public health emergency was declared in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by the
local health authority. To date, the response by provincial and federal health policymakers …

[HTML][HTML] The history of laparoscopic general surgery in the Caribbean

D Dan, V Naraynsingh, S Cawich… - … Indian med. j, 2012 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
OBJECTIVE: The first world witnessed a laparoscopic revolution in the 1990s. At the start,
laparoscopic surgery was heavily criticized and ridiculed. Despite this, the specialty has …

Safer injection facilities for injection drug users: the debate continues

W Campbell, NA el-Guebaly - CMAJ, 2002 - Can Med Assoc
What evidence do Thomas Kerr and Anita Palepu have for their supposition that “staff...
better able to encourage people to seek help, to discuss health concerns with them and to …

[PDF][PDF] jor reason that safe injection rooms are needed.

W Campbell, NA el-Guebaly - academia.edu
The answers to the questions raised by Gordon Brock and Vydas Gurekas are quite
straightforward. We would hope that safer injecting rooms could operate on a 24-hour basis …

[PDF][PDF] Thomas Kerr

E Wood - bccdc.ca
Background The primary strategies to address the illicit drug problem have historically
included:(a) primary prevention of illicit drug use through educational interventions and …

[PDF][PDF] A public health crisis

JA Cook - thenationalcouncil.org
“Rapid improvement in any field requires measuring results… Teams improve and excel by
tracking progress over time and comparing their performance to that of peers inside and …

Safer injection facilities for injection drug users: the debate continues

WW Weston - CMAJ, 2002 - Can Med Assoc
Although we agree that there is need for an expansion of treatment services in Canada,
evidence from Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland suggests that a continuum of …