Effect of witnessing an overdose on the use of drug checking services among people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, Canada.
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that witnessing an overdose may motivate PWUD to use drug checking services. Given that only a small proportion of PWUD in the study reported using drug checking services, our findings highlight the need to continue to scale-up a range of overdose prevention interventions.
PMID: 31983241 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - Category: Addiction Authors: Beaulieu T, Hayashi K, Nosova E, Milloy MJ, DeBeck K, Wood E, Kerr T, Ti L Tags: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse Source Type: research
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