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Safer Injection Facilities

Safe Injection Facilities (SIFs) are legally protected places where drug users consume pre-obtained drugs in a non-judgmental environment and receive health care, counseling, and referrals to other health and social services, including drug treatment.


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Materials from Safe Injection Facilities Symposium, 10/18/07
COMMUNITY SAFETY AND DRUG USER HEALTH: EXPLORING SAFE INJECTION FACILITIES IN SAN FRANCISCO Symposium at the Women's Building, October 18, 2007

SIF Fact Sheets
The basics on safe injection facilities and on the Alliance for Saving Lives, a community consortium in San Francisco working to improve individual and community health through safer use sites.

Research on Safe Injection Facilities
Peer-reviewed, published research on medically supervised injection facilities.

Emergency Antidote, Direct to Addicts
December 11th, 2007
Among the growing numbers of researchers and public health officials advocating a daring new strategy to put an injectable antidote for heroin overdoses directly into the hands of addicts, few have the credibility of Mark Kinzly.

San Francisco Ponders a Safe Injection Site, Would Be the Nation's First
October 26th, 2007
San Francisco city officials last Thursday took a tentative first step toward opening the nation's first safe injection site for drug users.

Advocates of Legal Drug Injection Center in San Francisco Discuss Support of Idea
October 22nd, 2007
Supporters of a potential city-funded, legal center in San Francisco where injection drug users can use drugs under medical supervision gathered Thursday to discuss the idea, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

San Francisco considers injection centers
October 19th, 2007
Grant Colfax of San Francisco's Public Health Department said data show an injection clinic that opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, four years ago is benefiting the community, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

S.F. injection center idea draws, support and doubt San Francisco Chronicle Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer
October 19th, 2007

SF Mulls Safe Haven For Shooting Up SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19, 2007
October 19th, 2007

Would drug facility be shot in the arm?
October 18th, 2007

San Francisco Considers Injection Room
October 18th, 2007
Article reporting on symposium co-sponsored by HRC as a member of Alliance for Saving Lives

C.W. Nevius: Support for supervised drug injection is growing
October 16th, 2007

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