- Police can move to a harm reduction policy as seen by the marked decrease in violence and confiscation used against those PWUD
- Sharing paraphernalia still continued because people may be afraid of carrying sterile syringes or crack pipes or because ony 1% of parapheniala is returned to PWUD

Assumptions taken from this Study

- Police confiscated fewer items and used less violence however both were still prevalent
- Saw decline in syringe and crack pipe sharing


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- Vancouver Canada changed their policing policy in 2006 to Stop the enforcement of paraphernalia confiscation and the use of violence on PWID they additionally increased the use of harm reduction measures such as needle exchanges. 
- In summation, this study is focused on how policing changes affect harm reduction and therefore the prevalence of high risk behavior which can translate into HIV spread

Vancouver Canada and Analyzing Policing Policy Changes and their Effect of PWID

Landsberg, Adina, et al. “Declining Trends in Exposures to Harmful Policing among People Who Inject Drugs in Vancouver, Canada.” Journal of the International AIDS Society, International AIDS Society, 18 July 2016, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4951540/. 

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