Community perspectives on supervised consumption sites: Insights from four U.S. counties deeply affected by opioids

To address the overdose crisis in the United States, expert groups have been nearly unanimous in calls for increasing access to evidence-based treatment and overdose reversal drugs. In some places there have also been calls for implementing supervised consumption sites (SCSs). Some cities —primarily in coastal urban areas—have explored the feasibility and acceptability of introducing them. However, the perspectives of community stakeholders from more inland and rural areas that have also been hard hit by opioids are largely missing from the literature.

Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - April 13, 2021 Category: Addiction Authors: Jirka Taylor, Allison J. Ober, Beau Kilmer, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Martin Y. Iguchi Source Type: research