ArticleAmerican journal of public health2008
The law (and politics) of safe injection facilities in the United States.
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- Supervised Injection Facilities as Harm Reduction: A Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Built to exclude: the law is a super-determinant of racial disparities in addiction treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- U.S. substance use harm reduction efforts: a review of the current state of policy, policy barriers, and recommendations.Harm reduction journal · 2025Review
- "Make yourself un-NIMBY-able": stakeholder perspectives on strategies to mobilize public and political support for overdose prevention centers in the United States of America.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Understanding Regional Patterns of Overdose Deaths Related to Opioids and Psychostimulants.Substance use & misuse · 2024Observational
- Supervised Inhalation Sites: Preventing Overdose and Reducing Health Inequities among People Who Use Drugs.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- Managing Addiction and Overdose Deaths: The Debate Over America's Safe Injection Spaces.Cureus · 2023Review
- Reduced Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalisation with Use of an Unsanctioned Safe Consumption Site for Injection Drug Use in the United States.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Examining Overdose and Homelessness as Predictors of Willingness to Use Supervised Injection Facilities by Services Provided Among Persons Who Inject Drugs.The American journal on addictions · 2021Article
- Harm Reduction Services to Prevent and Treat Infectious Diseases in People Who Use Drugs.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2020Review
- Gender differences in the provision of injection initiation assistance: a comparison of three North American settings.Harm reduction journal · 2018Article
- Communication Strategies to Counter Stigma and Improve Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder Policy.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2018Review
- Opioid-Involved Overdose Among Male Afghanistan/Iraq-Era U.S. Military Veterans: A Multidimensional Perspective.Substance use & misuse · 2017Article
- Mitigating the heroin crisis in Baltimore, MD, USA: a cost-benefit analysis of a hypothetical supervised injection facility.Harm reduction journal · 2017Article
- Willingness to use a supervised injection facility among young adults who use prescription opioids non-medically: a cross-sectional study.Harm reduction journal · 2017Article
- Drug use in business bathrooms: An exploratory study of manager encounters in New York City.The International journal on drug policy · 2017Article
- The Portapotty Experiment: Neoliberal approaches to the intertwined epidemics of opioid-related overdose and HIV/HCV, and why we need cultural anthropologists in the South Bronx.Dialectical anthropology · 2016Article
- Harm reduction for young people who use prescription opioids extra-medically: Obstacles and opportunities.The International journal on drug policy · 2016Review
- Examining the spatial distribution of law enforcement encounters among people who inject drugs after implementation of Mexico's drug policy reform.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2015Article
- Hospitals as a 'risk environment': an ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who inject drugs.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2014Article
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Abstract
Safe injection facilities (SIFs) have shown promise in reducing harms and social costs associated with injection drug use. Favorable evaluations elsewhere have raised the issue of their implementation in the United States. Recognizing that laws shape health interventions targeting drug users, we analyzed the legal environment for publicly authorized SIFs in the United States. Although states and some municipalities have the power to authorize SIFs under state law, federal authorities could still interfere with these facilities under the Controlled Substances Act. A state- or locally-authorized SIF could proceed free of legal uncertainty only if federal authorities explicitly authorized it or decided not to interfere. Given legal uncertainty, and the similar experience with syringe exchange programs, we recommend a process of sustained health research, strategic advocacy, and political deliberation.
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