| Title |
Displacement of Canada's largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Canadian Medical Association Journal, May 2004
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| DOI | 10.1503/cmaj.1031928 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Evan Wood, Patricia M Spittal, Will Small, Thomas Kerr, Kathy Li, Robert S Hogg, Mark W Tyndall, Julio S G Montaner, Martin T Schechter |
| Abstract |
Law enforcement is often used in an effort to reduce the social, community and health-related harms of illicit drug use by injection drug users (IDUs). There are, however, few data on the benefits of such enforcement or on the potential harms. A large-scale police "crackdown" to control illicit drug use in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside provided us with an opportunity to evaluate the effect. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 123 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 20% |
| Researcher | 23 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 13% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Unknown | 22 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 37 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 16% |
| Psychology | 12 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 7% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 13% |
| Unknown | 27 | 21% |
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