Health impacts of a scale‐up of supervised injection services in a Canadian setting: an interrupted time series analysis

• Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) Vol. 117; no. 4; pp. 986 - 997
• Main Authors: Kennedy, Mary Clare, Hayashi, Kanna, Milloy, M‐J, Compton, Miranda, Kerr, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2022
• Subjects: Addictions; Canada; Canada - epidemiology; Drug abuse; Drug development; Drug overdose; Drug Overdose - epidemiology; Drug use; Female; harm reduction; health policy; Health status; Humans; Injection; injection drug use; interrupted time series; Interrupted Time Series Analysis; Intervention; Male; Middle Aged; Needle Sharing; Overdose; overdose prevention; Participation; Prevention programs; Prospective Studies; Quasi-experimental methods; quasi‐experimental; Substance abuse treatment; Substance Abuse, Intravenous - complications; Substance Abuse, Intravenous - epidemiology; supervised consumption services; supervised injection services; Time series; Women; Canada; overdose prevention; Canada; health policy; interrupted time series; supervised consumption services; supervised injection services; quasi-experimental; harm reduction; injection drug use

Background and Aims In response to a dramatic rise in overdose deaths due to injection drug use, there was a rapid scale‐up of low‐threshold supervised injection services (SIS), termed ‘overdose prevention sites’ (OPS), in Vancouver, Canada in December 2016. We measured the potential impact of this...