Mobile supervised consumption services in Rural British Columbia: lessons learned

• Main Authors: Silvina C. Mema (Author), Gillian Frosst (Author), Jessica Bridgeman (Author), Hilary Drake (Author), Corinne Dolman (Author), Leslie Lappalainen (Author), Trevor Corneil (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In 2016, a public health emergency was declared in British Columbia due to an unprecedented number of illicit drug overdose deaths. Injection drug use was implicated in approximately one third of overdose deaths. An innovative delivery model using mobile supervised consumption se...