Machine-based opioid dispensing reduced drug-related harms.
As they have in the United States, opioid-related deaths in Canada have spiked in recent years. According toannual opioid toxicity deaths have doubled since 2019. While the number of deaths in the first 9 months of 2022 is about 8% lower than during the same period in 2021, it is still double the prepandemic rate.
The MySafe program placed biometric machines in two supportive housing settings in Vancouver and one in Victoria that enabled participants to access doses at their convenience without any staff interaction. Another machine was placed in an overdose prevention site in Vancouver. MySafe participants reported that they used fewer illicit drugs, felt that they had a lower overdose risk, and an improved sense of health and well-being since they enrolled in the program. They also reported a positive financial impact.
The study is part of a larger, mixed-methods, longitudinal evaluation of the MySafe program, said Bardwell., Rebecca Saah, PhD, an associate professor at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, said that the expansion of safer supply programs has been"particularly contentious and weaponized by various federal and local politicians." Saah did not participate in the research.
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