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The Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre: Client Characteristics and Predictors of Frequent Attendance during the First 12 Months of Operation

Published:2003-07 Issue:3 Volume:33 Page:639-648
ISSN:0022-0426
Container-title:Journal of Drug Issues
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Drug Issues

Author:

Kimber Jo¹,MacDonald Margaret²,van Beek Ingrid³,Kaldor John⁴,Weatherburn Don⁵,Lapsley Helen⁶,Mattick Richard P.⁷

Affiliation:

1. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales

2. National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales

3. Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, director of the Kirketon Road Centre and conjoint lecturer, School of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales

4. National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and professor of Epidemiology, University of New South Wales

5. Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, New South Wales Attorney General's Department

6. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales

7. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and professor of Drug and Alcohol Studies, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales

Abstract

This paper describes characteristics of clients registered in the first 12 months of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre's (MSIC) operation, as well as predictors of frequent attendance. The study is based on information collected from clients at their initial registration and subsequent service utilization. Most of the 2,719 clients were male (71%), almost half had previously experienced at least one nonfatal heroin overdose, and one quarter had accessed formal drug treatment in the previous 12 months. Characteristics associated with frequent attendance at the MSIC were reporting previous attendance at the local primary health service for injection drug users (IDU), injecting drugs other than amphetamine, reporting sex work, injecting at least daily, and injecting in a public place in the month before registration.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health(social science),Medicine (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002204260303300306

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