relevant articles related to SIS’s, researchers concluded that SIS’s
reduced inappropriate injection litter disposal and levels of public drug
injections (Potier et al., 2014). For those people who are homeless or
have unstable housing, the implementation of SIS’s is meaningful. For
them, once addiction occurs, the public area will be their only option for
injection. They may use drugs in the public restroom, in the park, on the
sidewalk, or in their temporary tents. When they complete injection, they
need to find a place to discard the injection litter or maybe just toss it
where they consume drugs. If there is a safe, secure place where these
PWID can enter, it will decrease the public injection and inappropriate
injection litter discard. In this scenario, SIS’s are significant for these
vulnerable groups.
Since SIS’s lower the health risk among PWID and their
communities, a significant amount of money and healthcare resources is
saved. A study completed by Irwin et al. (2017) visualized the beneficial
outcome of a hypothetical SIS in Baltimore: one SIS implementation
will have $5.98 million annual net saving for Baltimore; 3.7 and 21 new
HIV and HVC diagnoses, respectively, can be prevented; more than 300
days of hospitalization due to other infection can be reduced; 5.9
overdose mortality and 108 overdose ambulance calls can be prevented.
The study also showed that in most cases, the overdose which occurs in
SIS’s doesn’t need further ambulance assistance and hospitalization
(Madah-Amiri et al., 2019). Other multiple studies also claimed that