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Drug consumption rooms to reduce public disorders
Summary of the evidence
Drug consumption rooms were found in a systematic review without meta-analysis (Kennedy et al., 2017, 47 studies) to have a promising but not significant effect in:
- reducing public disorders associated with illicit drug use (people injecting drugs in public, publicly discarded syringes and injection-related litter) (5 studies).
Results of 6 studies also found no change in drug-related offences (drug dealing, thefts or robbery incidents, drug possession) within the area of the DCRs.
Details
Note: this evidence summary is only valid for the outcomes, target groups, settings and substances/patterns of use described below.
