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alia) concludes: "Research to date has shown that supervised injecting facilities can operate safely and to the benefit of the health and well-being of the socially marginalised injecting drug users that use them. These facilities do not seem to increase crime or public nuisance, and they reduce the public visibility of injecting drug use, the most probable reason for public tolerance of supervised injecting facilities in Europe. An important step in persuading the community that supervised injecting facilities have a role to play in reducing the harms caused by injecting drug use is to encourage more realistic expectations in the community about their likely benefits given the constraints under which these facilities often have to operate."

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Contact: Joe Santangelo
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Lancet
17-Mar-2005

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