Overdose Prevention in the United States: A Call for Supervised Injection Sites

Am J Public Health. 2017 Jan;107(1):42-43. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303523.

Authors

Mary Clare Kennedy¹, Thomas Kerr¹

Affiliation

¹ All of the authors are with the Urban Health Research Initiative, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mary Clare Kennedy is also with the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Thomas Kerr is also with the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Canada / epidemiology
Drug Overdose / mortality
Drug Overdose / prevention & control*
Humans
Injections
Opioid-Related Disorders / epidemiology*
Opioid-Related Disorders / mortality
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / organization & administration*
United States / epidemiology