• Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse · Jan 2008

    Employment among users of a medically supervised safer injection facility.

    • Lindsey Richardson, Evan Wood, Ruth Zhang, Julio Montaner, Mark Tyndall, and Thomas Kerr.
    • British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
    • Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2008 Jan 1; 34 (5): 519-25.

    AbstractA supervised injection facility (SIF), where individuals can inject drugs under medical supervision, opened in Vancouver in 2003. The scientific evaluation of the SIF has demonstrated positive public health-related outcomes. However, the influence of supervised injection facilities on individual efforts to reintegrate into mainstream society has not been studied. We examined for a possible relationship between use of the SIF and employment among a cohort of 1090 SIF users using generalized estimating equations (GEE). In a multivariate analysis of factors associated with employment, using the SIF for >or= 25% of injections (versus > 25% of injections) was not statistically significant (AOR = 1.05, 95% CI: 0.88-1.27). These findings suggest that the SIF is not having an adverse impact on efforts to seek employment.

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