The Washington Needle Depot: Fitting healthcare to injection drug users rather than injection drug users to healthcare: Moving from a syringe exchange to syringe distribution model

Harm Reduction Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Small, Dan ^a,b   Glickman, Andrea ^c   Rigter, Galen ^a   Walter, Thia ^d  

^a PHS Community Services Society   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Union of BC Indian Chiefs   (Canada)

^d Life is not Enough Society   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SHARPS DISPOSAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYRINGE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 74749085113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-7-1     Document Type: Article

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