Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de santé publique
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Can J Public Health · Apr 2019
Supervised inhalation is an important part of supervised consumption services.
The first regulated supervised inhalation site (safer smoking room) in North America has opened in Lethbridge, Alberta, as part of a supervised consumption site addressing all routes of consumption. When designing the service, we felt it was important to accommodate not just injection drug use but also inhalation because (1) it is not the method of drug use that kills but the drug itself, (2) all people who use drugs deserve service regardless of their mode of use, and (3) people who use drugs should have the opportunity to use the method with the lowest risk. ⋯ Supervised inhalation services provide an alternative to public drug use and an opportunity for people who use drugs to engage with harm reduction services. Other supervised consumption services in Canada may also wish to pursue exemptions for this service.
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Can J Public Health · Apr 2019
Self-Inflicted Injury-Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP-SI): a new surveillance tool for detecting self-inflicted injury events in emergency departments.
To assess the performance of the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program's newly developed self-harm surveillance tool (CHIRPP-SI) designed to improve emergency department (ED) hospital surveillance of youth self-inflicted injury (SI). ⋯ Study findings highlight the disparity between different sources of data, in relation to the capture of paediatric SI, presenting to hospital EDs. If greater details of SI events are to be identified, surveillance tools such as the CHIRPP-SI should be considered.