- No random sampling
-Self-reported data- bias may exist
- Confounding variables
- No differnetiation between syringe and pipe and confiscation

Ohio State University, Columbus

- 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

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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