Drug-related deaths and the sales of needles through pharmacies.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Providing needles to people who inject drugs is a well-proven public health response to the transmission of HIV and other blood borne viruses. Despite over a quarter of a century of research, new concerns about potential unintended negative consequences of needle distribution continue to emerge. Specifically, a claim was recently made that the introduction of pharmacy sales of needles was followed by an increase in overdoses in pharmacy parking lots. If true, this would have serious implications for the design of needle access programs, particularly those involving pharmacy sales of needles. METHODS:We examine spatial relationships between drug-related deaths and pharmacies in Los Angeles County (population 9.8 million) before and after the 2007 enactment of a California law allowing pharmacy sales of needles without a prescription. Seven thousand and forty-nine drugs related deaths occurred in Los Angeles county from 2000 to 2009 inclusive. Four thousand two hundred and seventy-five of these deaths could be geocoded, and were found to be clustered at the census tract level. RESULTS:We used three methods to examine spatial relationships between overdose death locations and pharmacy locations for two years on either side of the enactment of the pharmacy sales law, and found no statistically significant changes. Among the 711 geocodable deaths occurring in the two years following the change in law, no death was found to occur within 50m of a pharmacy which sold needles. CONCLUSION:These results are consistent with prior studies which suggest pharmacy sales of needles improve access to needles without causing increased harms to the surrounding community.

journal_name

Drug Alcohol Depend

authors

Davidson PJ,Martinez A,Lutnick A,Kral AH,Bluthenthal RN

doi

10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.11.022

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-02-01 00:00:00

pages

229-34

eissn

0376-8716

issn

1879-0046

pii

S0376-8716(14)01935-8

journal_volume

147

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