On 14 April 2016, British Columbia’s Provincial Medical Health Officer declared the overdose crisis a public health emergency, sanctioning the implementation of new overdose prevention sites (OPS) and supervised consumption sites (SCS) across the province. Authors used the BC Centre for Disease Control’s Provincial Overdose Cohort of all overdose events between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2017 to evaluate the population-level effects of OPSs and SCSs on acute health service use and mortality. They matched local health areas (LHA) that implemented any site with propensity score matched controls and conducted controlled interrupted time series analysis.
Citation: Panagiotoglou D (2022) Evaluating the population-level effects of overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites in British Columbia, Canada: Controlled interrupted time series. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0265665. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265665
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