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Drug consumption rooms: an overview of provision and evidence (Perspectives on drugs)

EMCDDA, Lisbon, June 2018

Summary

Supervised drug consumption facilities, where illicit drugs can be used under the supervision of trained staff, have been operating in Europe for the last three decades. These facilities primarily aim to reduce the acute risks of disease transmission through unhygienic injecting, prevent drug-related overdose deaths and connect high-risk drug users with addiction treatment and other health and social services.

Part of the Perspectives on Drugs (PODs) series, launched as part of the European Drug Report package, these designed-for-the-web interactive analyses provide deeper insights into a selection of important issues.

Note that the online version contains additional interactive or audiovisual material not available in the PDF version.

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Table of contents

  • Analysis: drug consumption rooms: an overview of provision and evidence
  • Video: drug consumption rooms
  • Facts and figures
  • Service model for a supervised drug consumption facility

Main subject:

harm reduction [7]

Keywords:

drug consumption facility [8]harm reduction [9]health harms of drug use [10]high-risk drug use [11]opioid substitution treatment (OST) [12]treatment of drug use [13]

Consumption rooms POD's cover

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Source URL: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/pods/drug-consumption-rooms_en

Links
[1] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/2734/POD_Drug%20consumption%20rooms.pdf
[2] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/2734/Drug%20consumption%20rooms_POD2017_DE.pdf
[3] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/2734/Drug%20consumption%20rooms_POD2017_ES.pdf
[4] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/2734/Drug%20consumption%20rooms_POD2017_FR.pdf
[5] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/2734/Drug%20consumption%20rooms_POD2017_PT.pdf
[6] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/drug-consumption-rooms
[7] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/topic/harm-reduction
[8] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/keywords/drug-consumption-facility
[9] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/taxonomy/term/1204
[10] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/keywords/health-harms-drug-use
[11] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/keywords/high-risk-drug-use
[12] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/keywords/opioid-substitution-treatment-ost
[13] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/taxonomy/term/1211