JOINT REPORT BY THE EMCDDA AND C-EHRN - Drug consumption rooms

The operation and functioning of DCRs has adapted to changes in the profiles and needs of their target groups, and to new patterns of use, as well as to new types of drugs emerging on the market. [...] Estimating the overall effect of SCSs on fatal and non-fatal overdoses is difficult … (10) In addition, Potier and colleagues (2014) extracted and synthesised the results of studies that addressed the impact of SISs on the number of local PWID; the medico-economic assessment of SISs; the opinion of PWID on SISs; and the impact of SISs on the opinions of local residents and local police. [...] To synthesise and evaluate To synthesise and evaluate the To determine the Study aim the available evidence for available evidence for the impact To assesses the evidence To synthesise available evidence for To assess the long-term impacts of the impact of DCRs of DCRs base for DCRs. [...] Looking to the future Over recent decades, the operation and functioning of DCRs can be seen to have adapted to changes in the profiles and needs of their target groups and to alterations in patterns of use, as well as to new types of drugs emerging on the market. [...] The main goal of the project was to acquire inside knowledge about the drug market in the vicinity of the DCR in order to strengthen the relational and harm-reduction work of the staff with users.