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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Main Authors: M-J S Milloy, Thomas Kerr, Mark Tyndall, Julio Montaner, Evan Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2556397?pdf=render