Supervised injection facilities in Canada: past, present, and future
Abstract 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 advocated for the creation of supervised injection facilities (SIFs), and after several unsanctioned SIFs operated br...
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Main Authors: | Thomas Kerr (Author), Sanjana Mitra (Author), Mary Clare Kennedy (Author), Ryan McNeil (Author) |
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2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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