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Use of safer smoking facilities within a supervised consumption service shaped by socio-structural factors: A qualitative study

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DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104158

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Supervised consumption; Drug consumption rooms; Harm reduction; inhalation; Safer smoking facilities; Risk mitigation

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The purpose of this research was to understand the factors influencing SCS clients' choice to use safer smoking rooms instead of injecting. The findings suggest that personal, social, and environmental factors, such as personal history, preference, desire to be with friends, and space limitations in the SCS, play a role in the mode of consumption.
Background: Safer smoking facilities provide an important alternative for supervised consumption service (SCS) clients who wish to lower certain health risks associated with injecting or who wish to smoke in the safety of the SCS rather than on the street. In 2018, the first regulated safer smoking facility in North America opened as part of a new supervised consumption site in a Western Canadian city. The purpose of this research project was to understand the interplay of factors in SCS clients choosing to use safer smoking rooms instead of injecting in booths. Method: Using a phenomenological approach, this research was guided by the question, What personal, social and environmental factors influence SCS clients' consumption methods? To answer this question we interviewed both clients and staff at the SCS. Participants were recruited through purposive sampling. Data was analysed using thematic analysis. Results: The findings of this study suggest that the mode of consumption is affected by personal (personal history and preference that clients had previously pre-contemplated and established pertaining to the substances of choice), social (the desire to be with friends) and environmental (space limitations in the SCS) factors. Conclusions: While many clients described self-determined rules around how they will consume various substances, these rules were fluid and changing depending on personal, social and environmental factors. Ensuring sufficient capacity of smoking rooms is a critical consideration in SCS and an important potential site of harm reduction.

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