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February 2005, Vol 95, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 233-236
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.033563

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Effects of an Intensive Street-Level Police Intervention on Syringe Exchange Program Use in Philadelphia, Pa

Corey S. Davis, BS, Scott Burris, JD, Julie Kraut-Becher, PhD, Kevin G. Lynch, PhD and David Metzger, PhD

Corey Davis, Julie Becher, and David Metzger are with the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study of Addiction, HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Division, Philadelphia. Scott Burris is with Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pa, and the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, Baltimore, Md. Kevin Lynch is with the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Corey Davis, BS, University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Addiction, HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Division, 3535 Market St, Suite 4058, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309 (e-mail: coreyd{at}mail.med.upenn.edu).

Repeated measurements and mixed-effects models were used to analyze the effects of an intensive long-term street-level police intervention on syringe exchange program use. Utilization data for 9 months before and after the beginning of the intervention were analyzed. Use fell across all categories and time periods studied, with significant declines in use among total participants, male participants, and Black participants. Declines in use among Black and male participants were much more pronounced than decreases among White and female participants.




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