Titre : | Circumstances of first injection among illicit drug users accessing a medically supervised safer injection facility. (2007) |
Auteurs : | Thomas KERR ; Calvin LAI ; Julio-Sg MONTANER ; Mark-W TYNDALL ; Evan WOOD ; Ruth ZHANG ; British Columbia Centre for Excellence in Hiv. Aids. Vancouver. CAN ; Faculty of Medicine. University of British Columbia. Vancouver. CAN |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 97, n° 7, 2007) |
Pagination : | 1228-1230 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Toxicomanie ; Voie intraveineuse ; Sécurité ; Injection ; Seringue ; Stupéfiant ; Age ; Adolescent ; Toxicomane ; Homme ; Amérique ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 21R0xi19. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. There have been concerns that safer injecting facilities may promote initiation into injection drug use. We examined length of injecting career and circumstances surrounding initiation into injection drug use among 1065 users of North America's first safer injecting facility and found that the median years of injection drug use were 15.9 years, and that only 1 individual reported performing a first injection at the safer injecting facility. These findings indicate that the safer injecting facility's benefits have not been offset by a rise in initiation into injection drug use. |