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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...
Autores principales: | Milloy, M-J. S., Kerr, Thomas, Tyndall, Mark, Montaner, Julio, Wood, Evan |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2008
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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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