News Overdose prevention sites provide wide range of health benefits: new research

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Overdose prevention sites provide wide range of health benefits: new research

The scaling-up of overdose prevention sites (OPS) in Vancouver beginning in December 2016 was associated with a range of health benefits, including an increase in engagement in addiction treatment, as well decreases in public injection and syringe sharing.

The findings from researchers with the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and University of British Columbia (UBC) were published today [1] in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction.

They found that following the establishment and expansion of OPS:

• Use of supervised consumption services immediately increased by more than 6% (from about 41% to 47%)
• Addiction treatment participation immediately increased by nearly 5% (from about 65% to 70%)
• Public injection immediately decreased by approximately 6% (from about 36% to 30%)
• Syringe sharing immediately decreased by nearly 3% (from about 5% to 2%)

BCCSU
2 Nov 2021

 

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In article links:

[1] Health impacts of a scale-up of supervised injection services in a Canadian setting: an interrupted time series analysis; Kennedy et al.


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