Estimated Drug Overdose Deaths Averted by North America's First Medically-Supervised Safer Injection Facility

BACKGROUND: Illicit drug overdose remains a leading cause of premature mortality in urban settings worldwide. We sought to estimate the number of deaths potentially averted by the implementation of a medically supervised safer injection facility (SIF) in Vancouver, Canada. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FIND...

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Autores principales: Milloy, M-J. S., Kerr, Thomas, Tyndall, Mark, Montaner, Julio, Wood, Evan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18839040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003351

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18839040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003351

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