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Supervised injection facility use and all-cause mortality among people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A cohort study.

Mary Clare KennedyKanna Hayashi PhDMichael John MilloyEvan WoodThomas Kerr
Published in: PLoS medicine (2019)
We observed a high burden of premature mortality among a community-recruited cohort of PWID. Frequent SIF use was associated with a lower risk of death, independent of relevant confounders. These findings support efforts to enhance access to SIFs as a strategy to reduce mortality among PWID. Further analyses of individual-level data are needed to determine estimates of, and potential causal pathways underlying, associations between SIF use and specific causes of death.
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