ArticleHarm reduction journal2006
Potential community and public health impacts of medically supervised safer smoking facilities for crack cocaine users.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The utilization and delivery of safer smoking practices and services: a narrative synthesis of the literature.Harm reduction journal · 2023Pooled it
- Non-injection drug use and Hepatitis C Virus: a systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2007Pooled it
- Safe inhalation pipe provision (SIPP): protocol for a mixed-method evaluation of an intervention to improve health outcomes and service engagement among people who use crack cocaine in England.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Supervised smoking facility access, harm reduction practices, and substance use changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a community-engaged cross-sectional study.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- High levels of interest in access to free safer smoking equipment to reduce injection frequency among people who inject drugs in Seattle, Washington.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2023Article
- An urgent impetus for action: safe inhalation interventions to reduce COVID-19 transmission and fatality risk among people who smoke crack cocaine in the United Kingdom.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Supervised inhalation is an important part of supervised consumption services.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2019Article
- Willingness to use an in-hospital supervised inhalation room among people who smoke crack cocaine in Vancouver, Canada.Drug and alcohol review · 2018Article
- Activism and scientific research: 20 years of community action by the Vancouver area network of drug users.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2018Article
- Drug use and phylogenetic clustering of hepatitis C virus infection among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A latent class analysis approach.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2018Article
- Supervised injection facilities in Canada: past, present, and future.Harm reduction journal · 2017Review
- Risky and rushed public crack cocaine smoking: the potential for supervised inhalation facilities.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Public opinions about supervised smoking facilities for crack cocaine and other stimulants.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2016Article
- Declining trends in exposures to harmful policing among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2016Article
- "We need somewhere to smoke crack": An ethnographic study of an unsanctioned safer smoking room in Vancouver, Canada.The International journal on drug policy · 2015Article
- Patterns, determinants and barriers of health and social service utilization among young urban crack users in Brazil.BMC health services research · 2013Article
- Public crack cocaine smoking and willingness to use a supervised inhalation facility: implications for street disorder.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2011Article
- Smoked cocaine in socially-depressed areas.Harm reduction journal · 2010Article
- Smoking of crack cocaine as a risk factor for HIV infection among people who use injection drugs.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2009Article
- Physical violence among a prospective cohort of injection drug users: a gender-focused approach.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2008Article
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Abstract
There is growing evidence of the public health and community harms associated with crack cocaine smoking, particularly the risk of blood-borne transmission through non-parenteral routes. In response, community advocates and policy makers in Vancouver, Canada are calling for an exemption from Health Canada to pilot a medically supervised safer smoking facility (SSF) for non-injection drug users (NIDU). Current reluctance on the part of health authorities is likely due to the lack of existing evidence surrounding the extent of related harm and potential uptake of such a facility among NIDUs in this setting. In November 2004, a feasibility study was conducted among 437 crack cocaine smokers. Univariate analyses were conducted to determine associations with willingness to use a SSF and logistic regression was used to adjust for potentially confounding variables (p < 0.05). Variables found to be independently associated with willingness to use a SSF included recent injection drug use (OR = 1.72, 95% CI: 1.09-2.70), having equipment confiscated or broken by police (OR = 1.96, 95% CI: 1.24-2.85), crack bingeing (OR = 2.16, 95% CI: 1.39-3.12), smoking crack in public places (OR = 2.48, 95% CI: 1.65-3.27), borrowing crack pipes (OR = 2.50, 95% CI: 1.86-3.40), and burns/inhaled brillo due to rushing smoke in public places (OR = 4.37, 95% CI: 2.71-8.64). The results suggest a strong potential for a SSF to reduce the health related harms and address concerns of public order and open drug use among crack cocaine smokers should a facility be implemented in this setting.
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