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==Terminology== Supervised injection sites are also known as ''overdose prevention centers (OPCs)'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://drugpolicy.org/issue/overdose-prevention-centers-opcs/ |title=Overdose Prevention Centers (OPCs) |publisher=Drug Policy Alliance}}</ref> ''supervised injection facilities'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Academies|first=Committee on the Prevention of HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National|title=Preventing HIV infection among injecting drug users in high-risk countries an assessment of the evidence|year=2007|publisher=National Academies Press|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-0-309-10280-3|url=http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11731&page=158|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017203421/http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11731&page=158|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 17, 2012|doi=10.17226/11731}} </ref> ''safe consumption rooms'',<ref>{{cite news |last= Learmonth |first= Andrew |date= 17 December 2020 |title= Boris Johnson pledges to discuss safe drug consumption rooms for users |url= https://www.thenational.scot/news/18949822.boris-johnson-pledges-discuss-safe-drug-consumption-rooms-users/ |work= The National |access-date= 21 January 2021}}</ref> ''safe injection sites'',<ref name=vanexp /> ''safe injection rooms'',<ref>{{cite news |last= Townsend |first= Mark |date= 17 August 2019 |title= Safe injection rooms are key to halting rise in drug deaths β expert |url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/17/safe-injection-rooms-key-to-reducing-drug-deaths-home-office-opposition |work= The Guardian |access-date= 21 January 2021}}</ref> ''fix rooms'',<ref name="npr">{{Cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/12/16/246606797/denmarks-fix-rooms-give-drug-users-a-safe-haven |title = Denmark's 'Fix Rooms' Give Drug Users a Safe Haven| website=[[NPR]] }}</ref> ''fixing rooms'',<ref name= "The Guardian, November 2018">{{cite news |last= Busby |first= Mattha |date= 21 November 2018 |title= How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts in Europe |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/nov/21/fixing-rooms-saving-lives-drug-addicts |work= The Guardian |access-date= 28 January 2021}}</ref> ''safer injection facilities (SIF)'', ''drug consumption facilities (DCF)'',<ref name=emcdda>{{cite web | url=http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/monographs/harm-reduction | work = Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges | title = Chapter 11: Drug consumption facilities in Europe and beyond | author = Dagmar Hedrich| date = April 2010 | publisher = [[EMCDDA]] |display-authors=etal}}</ref> ''drug consumption rooms (DCRs)'',<ref>{{cite news |last= Easton |first= Mark |date= 12 October 2017 |title= Are UK drug consumption rooms likely? |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41596222 |work= BBC News |access-date= 21 January 2021}}</ref> ''medically supervised injecting centres (MSICs)'' and ''medically supervised injecting rooms (MSIRs)''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://adf.org.au/insights/medically-supervised-injecting-centres/ |title=Medically supervised injecting centres save lives |date=14 Aug 2023 |publisher=Alcohol and Drug Foundation}}</ref>
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