Supervised injection facility use and all-cause mortality among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A cohort study.
BACKGROUND:People who inject drugs (PWID) experience elevated rates of premature mortality. Although previous studies have demonstrated the role of supervised injection facilities (SIFs) in reducing various harms associated with injection drug use, including accidental overdose death, the possible i...
Main Authors: | Mary Clare Kennedy, Kanna Hayashi, M-J Milloy, Evan Wood, Thomas Kerr |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-11-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002964 |
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