La revue de littérature sur les salles de consommation de Neil Hunt

Cette revue de littérature de Neil Hunt 2006 a pour avantage de prendre en compte des données publiée après le rapport de l'EMCDDA de 2004.

A retenir:
Cette étude de Wood (2005) sur les facteurs associé au maintien du patage de seringues parmi les usagers de la salle de vancouver:
Pour les personnes séronégatives au VIH, le fait d'avoir prété ou emprunté une seringue déjà usagée est associé au fait de dire d'avoir besoin d'aide pour l'injection ((p<0.001)


Wood E, Tyndall M W, Stoltz J-A, Small W, Lloyd-Smith E, Zhang R, Montaner J S G and Kerr T. Factors associated with syringe sharing among users of a medically supervised safer injecting facility. American Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1 (1): 50–54; 2005.


Wood E et al. (2005) Factors associated with syringe sharing
among users of a medically supervised safer injecting facility.
American Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1 (1): 50–54
Among people who use newly-provided safer injecting facilities
(SIF), a degree of residual sharing continues among part of the
population, as not all drug injecting occurs in the SIF. This study
investigated factors that were associated with continued sharing
within two groups: HIV positive and HIV negative injecting drug
users who had used the facility.
Of the HIV-ve sample, 48/479 people had borrowed syringes and
17/103 HIV+ve attenders had lent equipment over the 6-month
period March–October 2004.
For the HIV-ve sample, syringe borrowing was associated with:
• public drug use (p<0.001)
• needing help injecting (p<0.001).