The potential impacts of community drug checking within the overdose crisis: qualitative study exploring the perspective of prospective service users
Abstract Background As drug checking becomes more integrated within public health responses to the overdose crisis, and potentially more institutionalized, there is value in critically questioning the impacts of drug checking as a harm reduction response. Methods As part of a pilot project to implem...
Main Authors: | Bruce Wallace, Thea van Roode, Flora Pagan, Dennis Hore, Bernadette Pauly |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-06-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11243-4 |
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