Useful Documents
Vic-NSW Drug Injecting Rooms – definitively enriching the drug trade, failure to meet objectives
Drug Use, Stigma, and the Proactive Contagions to Reduce Both
Bioethics Research Notes MSIC 2011
DFA Injecting Room Detailed Research
Exposing Serious Errors In Vancouver Injecting Room - Study Jan 2012
Good Samaratin & Injecting Rooms A Response To Anex Bulletin Vol 10 Ed 3
Injection Rooms In Prisons Van Gron 2013
Lancet 2011 Insite Analysis
Legal Injecting Places - a Pharmicist's view
Summary of D F A's Analysis of the MSIC
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Supervised consumption sites were sold as a disciplined, tightly monitored answer to the overdose crisis. In Alberta, the evidence suggests something far messier: weak oversight, fuzzy statistics, rising disorder, and a public policy that keeps...
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Some Research… Toronto’s Supervised Consumption Sites and Local Crime Abstract Importance: Beginning in August 2017, 9 overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites (OPS/SCS) began operating in Toronto, Canada. Following years of community pushback stating that...
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Glasgow fix room dealers are openly flogging heroin and cocaine to addicts at the gates of Britain’s first safer drug consumption facility. Pushers target vulnerable users outside The Thistle Hub, a £2.3 million a year...
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Background and aims Evidence regarding the impacts of supervised drug consumption services (SDC) remains mixed, and few evaluations have used individual-level, linkable health data to examine service withdrawal. In September 2024, the Red Deer...
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The opioid crisis continues to devastate communities across Canada and beyond, with recent research highlighting alarming treatment retention failures that underscore why prevention must be our primary defence. A comprehensive study examining opioid agonist therapy...
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The Melbourne injecting room has come under sharp criticism following revelations of astonishing overdose rates. Over an 18-month period after the facility’s opening in July 2018, startling statistics showed 23.5 overdoses per 1,000 heroin...
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Advocates often promote injecting rooms, also called supervised injection facilities, as a way to minimise drug-related harm. Proponents suggest these facilities save lives and reduce community issues such as public drug use and discarded needles....
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Calls for an additional injecting room in the Western Suburbs of Sydney have led Drug Free Australia to once again highlight the failure of the Kings Cross injecting room, which hosts overdose rates 63 times higher than clients’ own...
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Conclusions: This Bulletin shows that lifetime use of the MSIR reported by participants in the Melbourne IDRS has increased over time, as has frequent use of the MSIR, categorised as ≥50% of reported injections. Our...
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A critical examination of safe injection sites reveals their ineffectiveness in addressing the drug crisis. Despite intentions to reduce harm, these facilities have consistently failed to deliver meaningful outcomes and have often exacerbated local drug...
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by CAA | Mar 8, 2024 The long-awaited report by former Police Commissioner Ken Lay into the possible location of another Safe injecting room for the CBD is now moot, having not seen the light of day. There...
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The big question underlying a drug consumption room in Glasgow is why the Scottish government and health authorities do not invest more in resources to support drug users become drug-free rather than use drugs, Professor Neil McKeganey...
Introduction: Welcome to AODstats, the Victorian alcohol and drug interactive statistics and mapping webpage.
AODstats provides information on the harms related to alcohol, illicit and pharmaceutical drug use in Victoria.
