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Employment Among Users of a Medically Supervised Safer Injection Facility Richardson, Lindsey, 1977-; Wood, Evan; Zhang, Ruth; Montaner, Julio; Tyndall, Mark; Kerr, Thomas

Abstract

A 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 generalised estimating equations (GEE). In a multivariate analysis of factors associated with employment, using the SIF for > 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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Title
Employment Among Users of a Medically Supervised Safer Injection Facility
Creator
Richardson, Lindsey, 1977-; Wood, Evan; Zhang, Ruth; Montaner, Julio; Tyndall, Mark; Kerr, Thomas
Contributor
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Date Issued
2009-07-07
Description
A 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 generalised estimating equations (GEE). In a multivariate analysis of factors associated with employment, using the SIF for > 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.
Subject
Employment; Supervised injection site; Injection drug use
Geographic Location
Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Genre
Article; Postprint
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2017-05-03
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0347275
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61475
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Medicine, Faculty of; Other UBC; Non UBC; Medicine, Department of; Sociology, Department of
Citation
Richardson, L., Wood, E., Zhang, R., Montaner, J., Tyndall, M., & Kerr, T. (2008). Employment among users of a medically supervised safer injection facility. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 34(5), 519-525.
Publisher DOI
10.1080/00952990802146308
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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