High levels of interest in access to free safer smoking equipment to reduce injection frequency among people who inject drugs in Seattle, Washington.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug use route transition interventions promote safer consumption by facilitating a switch from injection to safer routes such as smoking or oral consumption.

Methods

We performed a descriptive analysis using data from questions about "free, clean equipment for smoking" heroin, methamphetamine and/or crack from the Seattle 2018 National HIV Behavioral Surveillance survey of people who inject drugs (N = 555). We estimated the proportion of respondents with access to free safer smoking equipment, and among these participants, the proportion who reported that this access reduced their injection frequency. Among respondents without access to free safer smoking equipment, we described the proportion who were interested in getting access, and whether they thought

SUBMITTER: Reid MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10193167 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature