Assessing the Evidence on Supervised Drug Consumption Sites  Current levels of opioid-related morbidity and mortality in the United States are staggering. Data for 2017 indicate that there were more than 47,000 opioid-involved overdose deaths…

High willingness to use drug consumption rooms among people who inject drugs in Scotland: findings from a national bio-behavioural survey among people who inject drugs. Trayner KMA, Palmateer NE, Hutchinson SJ, Goldberg DJ, Shepherd SJ, Gunson RN…

UK. Glasgow activist risks arrest to set up drug consumption room in a van  Peter Krykant raises £2,000 for project by crowdfunding despite it being illegal to facilitate drug use in UK. (The Guardian, UK, 09.03.2020) https://www.theguardian…

Schottland. SDF statement on proposals by community activists to establish a supervised drug consumption facility Services that offer witnessed drug consumption to people who inject drugs help protect people from the risks of public injecting. …

USA. South Philadelphia to become site of nation’s first supervised-injection facility next week, organizers say The country’s first supervised-injection site will open next week in South Philadelphia, the site’s operators said Tuesday within hours…

Language Matters in Combatting the Opioid Epidemic: Safe Consumption Sites Versus Overdose Prevention Sites Colleen L. Barry, Susan G. Sherman, and Emma E. McGinty, 2018:  American Journal of Public Health 108, 1157_1159, doi.org/10.2105…