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Mitigating the heroin crisis in Baltimore, MD, USA: a cost-benefit analysis of a hypothetical supervised injection facility

BACKGROUND: In Baltimore, MD, as in many cities throughout the USA, overdose rates are on the rise due to both the increase of prescription opioid abuse and that of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids in the drug market. Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) are a widely implemented public health...

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Autores principales: Irwin, Amos, Jozaghi, Ehsan, Weir, Brian W., Allen, Sean T., Lindsay, Andrew, Sherman, Susan G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5441005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28532488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-017-0153-2