Quotes
"Evidence shows that supervised injecting centres off public health benefits and do not lead to adverse community outcomes."
"An addiction is defined as a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity."
"Supervised injecting facilities have been shown to be highly effective interventions in reducing the harms associated with injecting drug use and a growing body of international evidence indicates that these facilities are associated with reductions in needle and syringe sharing, overdoses, public injecting and numbers of publicly discarded syringes, increased uptake of drug detoxification and addiction treatment programs and have not lead to increases in drug related crime or rates of relapse among former drug users (Maher and Salmon 2007)."
"An addiction is defined as a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity."
"Supervised injecting facilities have been shown to be highly effective interventions in reducing the harms associated with injecting drug use and a growing body of international evidence indicates that these facilities are associated with reductions in needle and syringe sharing, overdoses, public injecting and numbers of publicly discarded syringes, increased uptake of drug detoxification and addiction treatment programs and have not lead to increases in drug related crime or rates of relapse among former drug users (Maher and Salmon 2007)."
