Background: Harms associated with public drug injection in large cities are well-established,
but little is known about challenges that public injecting may pose for smaller municipalities …

Background: Despite the implementation of policy interventions to address open drug
consumption, public injecting continues to occur in many urban settings. This study sought to …

Background: In January 2003, the Canadian federal government announced its support of
the scientific evaluation of safer injecting facilities (SIFs) in Canada. As emerging evidence …

Abstract Background: In 2016, BC Canada declared a public health emergency in response
to increasing illicit drug overdose deaths. Previous research has shown that adverse social …

While epidemiological investigations have documented elevated health harms associated
with public injecting, further ethnographic research focused specifically on public injecting …

Background: Drug use and injection-related harms are on the rise in the United States (US).
As a result, new outbreaks of HIV and viral hepatitis C (HCV) attributed to injection drug use …

Background Whilst injecting drugs in public places is considered a proxy for high risk
behaviour among people who inject drugs (PWID), studies quantifying its relationship with …

Background While supervised injection services (SIS) feasibility research has been
conducted in large urban centres across North America, it is unknown whether these …

Empirical evidence suggests that a key prerequisite for a supervised injection facility (SIF)
utilization is the existence of an “open drug scene,” where users publicly inject drugs. This …

Introduction In 2018, the first Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne, Australia
was officially opened. This study assessed whether this facility attracted people who inject …