Effect of witnessing an overdose on the use of drug checking services among people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, Canada.
Tara BeaulieuKanna Hayashi PhDEkaterina NosovaM-J MilloyKora DeBeckEvan WoodThomas KerrLianping TiPublished in: The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse (2020)
Our findings suggest that witnessing an overdose may motivate PWUD to use drug checking services. Given that only a small proportion of PWUD in the study reported using drug checking services, our findings highlight the need to continue to scale-up a range of overdose prevention interventions.