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Safer Injection Rooms

Nadelmann, Ethan, et al. Safer Injection Rooms. Nov 2001.


Bless, R.; Korf, Dirk J.; Freeman, M. "Open drug scenes: A cross-national comparison of concepts and urban strategies." European Addiction Research. 1995. 1(3): 128-138.

Coffin, Phillip O. . New York: Lindesmith Center. 1999. 8 p.

de Jong, Wouter; Weber, Urban. "The professional acceptance of drug use: A closer look at drug consumption rooms in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland." International Journal of Drug Policy. 1999, April. 10(2): 99-108.

Derricott, Jon; Preston, Andrew; Hunt, Neil. The Safer injecting briefing: An easy to use comprehensive reference guide to promoting safer injecting. Liverpool: HIT. 1999. 142 p.

Grund, Jean-Paul C.; Stern, L. Synn; Kaplan, Charles D.; et al. "Drug use contexts and HIV-consequences: The effect of drug policy on patterns of everyday drug use in Rotterdam and the Bronx." British Journal of Addiction. 1992. 87: 381-392.

Hartnoll, Richard; Rhodes, Tim, Eds. AIDS, drugs and prevention: Perspectives on individual and community action. London: Routledge. 1996. 240 p.

Hartnoll, Richard; Hedrich, Dagmar. "AIDS prevention and drug policy: Dilemmas in the local environment." In: Rhodes, T.; Hartnoll, R. L., Eds., AIDS, drugs and prevention. London: Routledge. 1995. 42-65.

MacPherson, Donald. Comprehensive systems of care for drug users in Switzerland and Frankfurt, Germany: Report from the 10th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm and a tour of harm reduction services in Frankfurt, Germany. Vancouver, Canada: City of Vancouver, Social Planning Department. 1999. 21 p.

Sorge, Rod; Kershnar, Sara. Harm Reduction Coalition. Getting off right: A safety manual for injection drug users. New York, NY: Harm Reduction Coalition. 1998. 81 p.

Australia

Byrne, Andrew J. "Injecting room up and running in Sydney." 2001, July.

Crofts, Nick. Centre for Harm Reduction, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research; Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN). Manual for reducing drug related harm in Asia. Australia: Centre for Harm Reduction 1999. 359 p.

Dolan, Kate A.; Kimber, Jo; Fry, Craig, et al. "" Drug and Alcohol Review. 2000. 19: 337-346.

Fry, Craig; Fox, Sandra; Rumbold, Greg. "Establishing safe injecting rooms in Australia: Attitudes on injecting drug users." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 1999. 23(5): 501-504.

Joint Select Committee into Safe Injection Rooms, Parliament of New South Wales. . Australia: Parliament of New South Wales. 1998. 307 p.

Micallef, Eddie. Safe injecting facilities: Should Victoria have a SIF pilot-trial? 1998. 11 p.

Rutter, S.; Dolan, Kate; Wodak, A. "Rooms for rent: Injecting and harm reduction in Sydney." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 1997. 21(1): 105.

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Canada

Green T; Hankins C; Palmer D; Boivin, JF; and Platt R. “Ascertaining the need for a supervised injecting facility (SIF): The burden of public injecting in Montreal, Canada.” Journal of Drug Issues. 2003. 33(3):  713-732.

Green TC; Hankins C; Palmer D; Boivin, JF; and Platt R.  “My place, your place, or a safer place:  The intention among Montreal injecting drug users to use supervised injecting facilities (SIF).” Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2004. Mar./Apr.: 110 – 114

Kerr, Thomas. Harm Reduction Action Society. . Vancouver, Canada: Harm Reduction Action Society. 2000. 77 p.

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Germany

Anonymous. Leitlinien zum betrieb und zur nutzung von konsumraumen [Guidelines for the operation and use of consumption rooms]. Oldenburg, Germany: Carl von Ossietzky Universität. 2000, April. 29 p.

Böllinger, Lorenz; Stöver, Heino; Fietzek, Lothar. "Druckräume: Angebote, in denen der intravenöse Drogenkonsum toleriert wird [Injection rooms: Places where intravenous drug use is tolerated]." In: Böllinger, Lorenz; Stöver, Heino; Fietzek, Lothar, Drogenpraxis, Drogenrecht, Drogenpolitik. Frankfurt, Germany: Fachhochschulverlag. 1995. 142-145.

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg; Fixpunkt. Gesundheitsräume für Drogenkonsumierende in Theorie und Praxis [Healthrooms for drug users in theory and practice]. Oldenburg, Germany: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. 1998.

Fischer, Benedikt. "Drugs, communities and 'harm reduction' in Germany: The new relevance of 'public health' principles in local responses." Journal of Public Health Policy. 1995. 16(4): 389-411.

Forster, H. "Erfahrungen mit Druckräumen." In: Michels, Ingo I.; Stöver, Heino, Eds., Menschenwürde in der Drogenpolitik: Ohne Legalisierung geht es nicht! [Dignity in drug politics: Without legalization it doesn't work!]. Berlin, Germany: DAH-Selbstverlag. 1994. 68-82.

Gerlach, Ralf; Schneider, Wolfgang. Consumption and Injecting Room (CIR) at INDRO, Münster, Germany - Annual Report 2002 (English Version). February 6, 2003. Report Period: January to December 2002. (Note: this link will take you to the INDRO website)

Grund, Jean-Paul C.; Stern, L. Synn. "Die Drogensubkultur und betroffenennahe Ansatze zur HIV-Pravention [Drug subculture and HIV prevention by those affected the most]." In: Beißwenger, Klaus-Dieter; Höpfner, Christine; Stövner, Heino, Eds., Der tolerierte intravenöse Drogengebrauch in den angeboten der Drogen- und AIDS-Hilfe. Berlin, Germany: Oktoberdruck. 1991. 129-143.

Integrative Drogenhilfe. Annual report 1994. Frankfurt, Germany: Integrative Drogenhilfe an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main e.V. 1995. 48 p.

Integrative Drogenhilfe. Annual report 1995. Frankfurt, Germany: Integrative Drogenhilfe an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main e.V. 1996. 61 p.

Integrative Drogenhilfe. Annual report 1997. Frankfurt, Germany: Integrative Drogenhilfe an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main e.V. 1998.

Kemmesies, Uwe E.. Institut zur Forderung qualitativer Drogenforschung, akzeptierender Drogenarbeit und rationaler Drogenpolitik, INDRO e.v./Munster. The open drug scene and the safe injection room offers in Frankfurt am Main 1995: Final report. Frankfurt, Germany: European Cities on Drug Policy. 1999. 62 p.

Körner, Harald Hans. Gutachten zur Zulässigkeit von Gesundheitsräumen für den hygienischen und streßfreien Konsum von Opiatabhängigen: Az. 406/20-9 [Testimony for the establishment of health rooms for hygenic and stress-free consumption by opiate-addicted individuals]. Frankfurt, Germany: Headquarters of the Campaign against Drug Abuse (ZfB). 1993. 21 p.

Kemmesies, Uwe E. "Offene Drogenszene und Druckraum: Ein empirischer Beitrag [Open drug scenes and injection rooms: An empirical addition]." Wiener Zeitschrift für Suchtforschung. 1996. 3-4: 17-31.

Kemmesies, Uwe E. "Szenebefragung, Frankfurt/Main 1995: Die 'offene drogenszene' und das Gesundheitsraumangebot in Ffm [Drug scene survey, Frankfurt am Main 1995: The 'open drug scene' and the availability of health rooms in Franfurt am Main]." Frankfurt, Germany: Stadt Frankfurt/Dezernat Frauen und Gesundheit, Drogenreferat. 1995. 58 p.

Klee, Jürgen. "Das Elend soll weg von der Straße: Ein empirischer Beitrag [Getting the suffering off the streets: An empirical contribution]." In: Klee, Jürgen; Stöver, Heino, Eds., Drogen und AIDS. Berlin, Germany: DAH Berlin. 1994.

Klee, Jürgen, Ed. Akzeptanzorientierte Angebote in der Drogen- und AIDS-Selbsthilfe: Gesundheitsräume in der aktuellen Debatte [Acceptance-oriented offers in drug- and AIDS self-help: Health rooms in the current debate]. Berlin, Germany: Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe. 1997.

Lanz, Andreas; Sempach, Robert; Scholz, Gerhard. "Evaluation der Kontakt- und Anlaufstellen, ein niedrigschwelligen Tagesstrukturangebot [Evaluation of contact- and drop-in centers]." Sozial- und Präventivmedizin. 1996. 41(Suppl. 1): S35-S44.

Nickolai, Marion. "Evolution of Frankfurt's approach to the drug problem." EuroMethwork. 1997. No. 12: 3-4.

Stöver, Heino. Der tolerierte intravenöse Drogengebrauch in den Angeboten der Drogen and AIDS-Hilfe [Tolerated intravenous drug use among the offerings of drug- and AIDS-services]. Berlin, Germany: AIDS-Forum DAH. 1991.

Trautmann, Franz. "Druckraum: Befreiend oder erdrückend: Die Perspective zwischen Freiraum, Tagtraum oder Beaufsichtigung [Injection room: Liberating or oppressive? The perspectives of freedom, day dream, and supervision]." In: Akzept e. V., Ed., Drogen ohne Grenzen. Berlin, Germany: VWB-Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung. 1995. 213-222.

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Netherlands
Blanken, Peter; Adriaans, Nico F. P. Echo's van een mespuntje fantasie: Een model voor lokaal drugbeleid gericht op beheersbaarheid van ongewenste neven-effecten van druggebruik onder prohibitie. Unpublished 1993. 29 p.

Blanken, Peter; Barendregt, Cas J.; Zuidmulder, Linda J. "Drugshandel en overlast in Rotterdam." IVO Bulletin. 1998. 1(2): 1-23.

Blanken, Peter; Barendregt, Cas J. "Veranderingen in de aanbod: En vraagzijde van de illegale drugsmarket in Rotterdam: Enkele resultaten van het Rotterdams Drug Monitoring Systeem 1995-1997." IVO Bulletin. 1998. 1(1): 1-11.

Warner, M. N. Over de Drempel: Onderzoek naar de mogelijkheid om harddruggebruik binnen een opvangvoorziening in Arnhem te reguleren. Arnhem, Netherlands: Gelders Centrum voor Verslavingszorg. 1997.

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Switzerland

Benninghoff, F.; Gervasoni, J. P.; Spencer, B.; Dubois-Arber, F. "Caractéristiques de la clientèle des structures à bas seuil d'accès mettant à disposition du matérial d'injection stérile en Suisse." Suisse. Revue d'Épidémiologie et Santé Publique. 1998. 46: 205-217.

Buerki, C.; Egger, M.; Haemmig, Robert B.; et al. HIV-risk behavior among street intravenous drug users attending a shooting room in Bern, Switzerland: 1990 and 1995. Bern, Switzerland: University of Bern. 1996.

Dolan, Kate; Wodak, Alex. Final report on injecting rooms in Switzerland. Publisher unknown. 1996. 7 p.

Gesundheitsamt Basel-Stadt. Hygiene-Richtlinien fur die Gassenzimmer I und II sowie für das Opiatverschreibungsprojekt JANUS [Hygenic guidelines for Alley-rooms I and II as well as the opiate-prescription project JANUS]. Basel, Switzerland: Gesundheitsamt Basel-Stadt. 1995. 10 p.

Haemmig, Robert B. "Harm reduction in Bern: From outreach to heroin maintenance." Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 1995 Winter. 72(2): 371-379.

Haemmig, Robert B. "The streetcorner agency with shooting room ('Fixerstubli')." In: O'Hare, Pat A.; Newcombe, R.; Matthews, A.; Buning, E. C.; Drucker, Ernie, Eds., The reduction of drug-related harm. New York: Routledge. 1992. 181-185.

Leitung Gassenzimmer, Sekretariat AAJ. Betriebskonzept der Basler Gassenzimmer [Mission statement for the Basel Alley-rooms]. Basel, Switzerland: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für aktuelle Jugendfragen. ca. 1995. 9 p.

Ronco, C.; Spuler, G.; Coda, P.; Schopfer, R.. Evaluation der Gassenzimmer I, II und III in Basel [Evaluation for Alley-rooms I, II and II in Basel]. Basel, Switzerland: Institut für Sozial und Präventivmedizin der Universität Basel. 1994.

Ronco, C.; Spuler, G.; Kaiser, R. "Evaluation des 'Aufenthalts- und Betreuungsraum für Drogenabhängige' in Luzern [Evaluation of the common- and medical care room for drug addicts in Lucerne]." Sozial- und Präventivmedizin. 1996. 41(Suppl. 1): S45-S57.

Sozialamt der Stadt Zürich. Erfahrungsbericht der Kontakt- und Anlaufstellen uber den Betrieb der Gassenzimmer [Progress report of the contact points and drop-in centers on the working of the alley-rooms]. Zürich, Switzerland: Sozialamt der Stadt Zürich. 1993. 78 p.

Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. Use of narcotic drugs in public injection rooms under public international law. Switzerland: Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. 2000, January 7. (Note: This link will take you to the drugtext.org Website)

Trägerverein AAJ, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für aktuelle Jugendfragen. Halbjahresauswertung: Gassenzimmer 1, Gassenzimmer 2, 01.07. bis 31.12. 1995 [Biannual evaluation: Alley-room 1, Alley-room 2]. Basel, Switzerland: Trägerverein AAJ. 1995. 15 p.

Trägerverein AAJ, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für aktuelle Jugendfragen. Halbjahresauswertung: Gassenzimmer Riehenring, Gassenzimmer Spitalstrasse, 01.01. bis 30.06. 1996 [Biannual evaluation: Alley-room Riehenring, Alley-room Spitalstrasse]. Basel, Switzerland: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für aktuelle Jugendfragen. 1996. 17 p.

Trägerverein AAJ, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für aktuelle Jugendfragen. Halbjahresbericht: Gassenzimmer BL, Januar bis Juni 1996 [Biannual evaluation: Alleyroom BL, January to June 1996]. Basel, Switzerland: Trägerverein AAJ. 1996. 11 p.

Uchtenhagen, Ambros. "Harm reduction: The case of Switzerland." European Addiction Research. 1995, March. 1(3): 86-91.