ArticleThe International journal on drug policy2020
The effect of injecting alone on the use of drug checking services among people who inject drugs.
Article in The International journal on drug policy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Drug checking services for people who use drugs: a systematic review.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Safety in solitude? Competing risks and drivers of solitary drug use among women who inject drugs and implications for overdose detection.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
- Substance Use Stigma and Community Drug Checking: A Qualitative Study Examining Barriers and Possible Responses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Injecting drugs alone during an overdose crisis in Vancouver, Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- A Realist Review of How Community-Based Drug Checking Services Could Be Designed and Implemented to Promote Engagement of People Who Use Drugs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- The potential impacts of community drug checking within the overdose crisis: qualitative study exploring the perspective of prospective service users.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesDrug checking services aim to provide people who use drugs with information on the content and purity of their substances as a harm reduction intervention. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between injecting alone and use of drug checking services in Vancouver, Canada.
methodsData were derived from three prospective cohort studies of people who inject drugs (PWID). We conducted bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis to estimate the effect of injecting alone on use of drug checking services.
resultsBetween May 2018 and December 2018, a total of 793 people who inject drugs were included in the study: 579 (73.0%) reported injecting alone and 177 (22.3%) reported use of drug checking services. In a multivariable model adjusted for various confounders (including various sociodemographic variables, drug use patterns, and whether participants had suffered physical attacks/violence), injecting alone was negatively associated with use of drug checking services (Adjusted Odds Ratio = 0.65; 95% Confidence Interval: 0.44-0.97).
conclusionsWe observed a negative association between injecting drugs alone and use of drug checking services, which may be due in part to a number of exogenous factors that prevent people who inject alone from accessing drug checking services (e.g., stigma, location of services). As these individuals are at heightened risk of experiencing overdoses, there is a need to pursue other strategies to reach this group of people who use drugs.
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