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A registered nurse treats Dominic Rodriguez for a skin injury related to xylazine use in Philadelphia in May 2023. Treatment vans are allowed in the city, but not supervised injection sites. Matt Rourke/AP Photo

Philadelphia bans supervised injection sites – evidence suggests keeping drug users on the street could do more harm than good

Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University; Jannet van der Veen, Drexel University; Synøve Nygaard Andersen, University of Oslo, and Tony Joakim Ananiassen Sandset, University of Oslo

A group of academics look at the global evidence to examine the potential impact of supervised injection sites in Philadelphia and the US.
A wall at a supervised consumption site in Ottawa is decorated with notes written in chalk. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Supervised consumption sites reduce drug overdoses and disease transmission — and deserve government support

Carolyn Greene, Athabasca University; Katharina Maier, University of Winnipeg, and Marta-Marika Urbanik, University of Alberta

Supervised consumption sites provide essential community connections and services for those who use them. By closing them, governments are risking the welfare of people who use drugs.
A woman holds a photo of her best friend, who died of a drug overdose in January 2017, before a march to draw attention to the opioid overdose epidemic, in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

How to stop overdoses? Prevent them to begin with

Lindsey Richardson, University of British Columbia and Jenna Van Draanen, University of British Columbia

Catastrophic increases in opioid overdose deaths across Canada require a broad response – tackling housing, food and income insecurity as well as the contaminated drug supply.

Related Topics

  1. Alberta
  2. Cities
  3. Harm reduction
  4. Homelessness
  5. Methadone
  6. Opioid overdose
  7. Opioids
  8. Substance use disorder

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