Current opinion in HIV and AIDS
Authors: Borgo GM, Rutishauser RL
Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Authors: Jansen JP, Ragavan MV, Chen C, Douglas MP, Phillips KA
Global advances in integrative medicine and health
Authors: Nicosia FM, Lee JA, Chesney MA, Benjamin C, Lee AN, Mehling W, Sudore RL, Barnes DE
Nature genetics
Authors: Yang X, Wen J, Yang H, Jones IR, Zhu X, Liu W, Li B, Clelland CD, Luo W, Wong MY, Ren X, Cui X, Song M, Liu H, Chen C, Eng N, Ravichandran M, Sun Y, Lee D, Van Buren E, Jiang MZ, Chan CSY, Ye CJ, Perera RM, Gan L, Li Y, Shen Y
JAMA oncology
Authors: Silverstein J, Van Loon K
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Authors: Diamond JM, Cantu E, Calfee CS, Anderson MR, Clausen ES, Shashaty MGS, Courtwright AM, Kalman L, Oyster M, Crespo MM, Bermudez CA, Benvenuto L, Palmer SM, Snyder LD, Hartwig MG, Todd JL, Wille K, Hage C, McDyer JF, Merlo CA, Shah PD, Orens JB, Dhillon GS, Weinacker AB, Lama VN, Patel MG, Singer JP, Hsu J, Localio AR, Christie JD
Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
Authors: Osborne CM, Langelier C, Kamm J, Williamson K, Ambroggio L, Reeder RW, Locandro C, Kirk Harris J, Wagner BD, Maddux AB, Caldera S, Lyden A, Soesanto V, Simões EAF, Leroue MK, Carpenter TC, Hall MW, Zuppa AF, Carcillo JA, Meert KL, Pollack MM, McQuillen PS, Notterman DA, DeRisi J, Mourani PM, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Rese
Volume 252 | Drug and alcohol dependence
Authors: Davidson PJ, Wenger LD, Morris T, Majano V, Browne EN, Lambdin BH, Suen LW, Kral AH
BACKGROUND
Between January and December 2022 a multi-service center incorporating an overdose prevention site (OPS) operated with city government sanction in San Francisco. One concern often expressed about OPS is that they may increase social nuisance associated with drug use in the surrounding area, despite international evidence that this is not the case.
METHODS
We conducted systematic street observation of 10 indicators of drug- and homelessness-related social nuisance in a 500 m radius around the OPS and around a comparison point in the same city before and after the introduction of the OPS. We estimated the risk that any given street within sampling areas would have nuisance post-intervention relative to the control area using Poisson regression.
RESULTS
Ratio of relative risks of any reported nuisance in the 500 m area surrounding the OPS from pre- to post-intervention to that of the comparison area was 0.69 (95% CI: 0.54, 0.87; p=0.002). The relative risk of drug-specific nuisance was similar to the comparison area pre/post intervention (0.90; 95% CI 0.66, 1.24; p=0.53). The risk of homelessness-specific nuisance decreased around the OPS (RR 0.7., 95% CI 0.52, 0.93; p=0.02) whereas they increased around the comparison area (RR 1.33, 95% CI 1.06, 1.68; p=0.02).
CONCLUSION
We found that implementing authorized OPS services in a U.S. city did not increase the prevalence of visible signs of drug use and homelessness in the surrounding area. These findings are similar to those found at OPS outside the U.S.
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JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
Authors: Ha NB, Fan B, Seetharaman S, Kent DS, Yao F, Shui AM, Huang CY, Wadhwani SI, Lai JC
Journal of general internal medicine
Authors: Rotenstein LS, Melnick ER, Jeffery M, Zhang J, Sinsky CA, Gitomer R, Bates DW
