UK. Police back ‘shooting galleries’ for drug users Senior police officers are backing plans to create a national network of drug consumption rooms, known as “shooting galleries”, where addicts are provided with drugs such as heroin, paid for by th…

Evaluation of a fentanyl drug checking service for clients of a supervised injection facility, Vancouver, Canada. Karamouzian M, Dohoo C, Forsting S, McNeil R, Kerr T, Lysyshyn M. Harm Reduct J. 2018 Sep 10;15(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12954-018-0252-8…

The projected costs and benefits of a supervised injection facility in Seattle, WA, USA. Hood JE, Behrends CN, Irwin A, Schackman BR, Chan D, Hartfield K, Hess J, Banta-Green C, Whiteside L, Finegood B, Duchin J. Int J Drug Policy. 2019 Feb 22;67…

Impact of drug consumption rooms on risk practices and access to care in people who inject drugs in France: the COSINUS prospective cohort study protocol. Auriacombe M, Roux P, Briand Madrid L, Kirchherr S, Kervran C, Chauvin C, Gutowski M, Denis C…

USA. Philadelphia Mulls Supervised Injections to Cut Drug Deaths For nearly two decades, Vancouver, the epicenter of Canada's increasingly deadly drug epidemic, has embraced an initiative that was once dismissed as a reckless experiment but has sin…

USA. Safe Consumption Sites: Study Identifies Policy Change Strategies and Challenges Understanding community experiences may inform others seeking to establish safe consumption sites A new qualitative study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…