ArticleSubstance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy2006
Impact of a medically supervised safer injecting facility on drug dealing and other drug-related crime.
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- Supervised Injection Facilities as Harm Reduction: A Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Public Health and Public Order Outcomes Associated with Supervised Drug Consumption Facilities: a Systematic Review.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2017Pooled it
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- Toronto's Supervised Consumption Sites and Local Crime.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Considerations for the epidemiological evaluation of hyperlocal interventions: A case study of the New York City overdose prevention centers.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Informed implementation practice - formative research of a mobile drug consumption room in Brno, Czech Republic.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Study assessing the effectiveness of overdose prevention centers through research (SAFER): an overview of the study protocol.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Investigating the spatial association between supervised consumption services and homicide rates in Toronto, Canada, 2010-2023: an ecological analysis.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- Evaluating the effects of supervised consumption sites on housing prices in Montreal, Canada using interrupted time series and hedonic price models.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- The public health impacts of supervised injection sites in Canada: Moving beyond social acceptability and impacts on crime.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2024Article
- Characterizing Use of Supervised Consumption Services among Street-involved Youth and Young Adults in the Context of an Overdose Crisis.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Article
- Overdose Prevention Centers, Crime, and Disorder in New York City.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Harm reduction in the hospital: An overdose prevention site (OPS) at a Canadian hospital.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Acceptability of Overdose Prevention Sites in the Business Community in Baltimore, Maryland.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2022Article
- NIMBYism and Harm Reduction Programs: Results from Baltimore City.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2022Article
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- Supervised consumption sites and crime: scrutinizing the methodological weaknesses and aberrant results of a government report in Alberta, Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2021Article
- Assessing Drug Consumption Rooms and Longer Term (5 Year) Impacts on Community and Clients.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2021Review
- Harm Reduction Services to Prevent and Treat Infectious Diseases in People Who Use Drugs.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2020Review
- Supervised injection facility use and exposure to violence among a cohort of people who inject drugs: A gender-based analysis.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
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Abstract
North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) recently opened in Vancouver, Canada. One of the concerns prior to the SIF's opening was that the facility might lead to a migration of drug activity and an increase in drug-related crime. Therefore, we examined crime rates in the neighborhood where the SIF is located in the year before versus the year after the SIF opened. No increases were seen with respect to drug trafficking (124 vs. 116) or assaults/robbery (174 vs. 180), although a decline in vehicle break-ins/vehicle theft was observed (302 vs. 227). The SIF was not associated with increased drug trafficking or crimes commonly linked to drug use.
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