• J Hosp Med · May 2015

    Willingness to access an in-hospital supervised injection facility among hospitalized people who use illicit drugs.

    • Lianping Ti, Jane Buxton, Scott Harrison, Sabina Dobrer, Julio Montaner, Evan Wood, and Thomas Kerr.
    • British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
    • J Hosp Med. 2015 May 1; 10 (5): 301-6.

    BackgroundDespite the reliance on abstinence-based drug policies within hospital settings, illicit drug use is common among hospitalized patients with severe drug addiction. Hospitalized patients who use illicit drugs (PWUDs) have been known to resort to high-risk behavior to conceal their drug use from healthcare providers. Novel interventions with the potential to reduce high-risk behavior among PWUDs in hospital settings have not been well studied.ObjectiveThe objective of the study was to examine factors associated with willingness to access an in-hospital supervised injection facility (SIF).DesignData were derived from participants enrolled in 2 Canadian prospective cohort studies involving PWUDs between June 2013 and November 2013. A cross-sectional study surveying various sociodemographic characteristics, drug use patterns, and experiences was conducted.SettingVancouver, Canada.MeasurementsBivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were used to explore factors significantly associated with willingness to access an in-hospital SIF.ResultsAmong 732 participants, 499 (68.2%) would be willing to access an in-hospital SIF. In multivariable analyses, factors positively and significantly associated with willingness to access an in-hospital SIF included: daily heroin injection (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.90; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.20-3.11); having used illicit drugs in hospital (AOR = 1.63; 95% CI: 1.18-2.26); and having recently used an SIF (AOR = 1.53; 95% CI: 1.10-2.15).ConclusionsOur findings highlight the potential of in-hospital SIFs to complement existing harm reduction programs that serve PWUD. Moreover, an in-hospital SIF may minimize the harms associated with high-risk illicit drug use in the hospital.© 2015 Society of Hospital Medicine.

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