Police actions that displace people who inject drugs experiencing homelessness leads to riskier injection practices and interrupts access to substance use care, reports a study published in the Harm Reduction Journal.
As clinical providers in the OCS neighborhood, we heard about these impacts from our patients. We also walked to work past the flashing lights of police cruisers, heard the repeated directives to disperse, and noticed unusually empty streets.
We divided the study into a 6-week pre-OCS period , a 2-week period when OCS was active , and a 4-week post-OCS period . Though daily assessments of clinic volume had substantial day-to-day variability, we selected a daily interval to allow for enough observations during the intervention period to assess for changes in visit volumes.
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