EDITORIAL

Supervised injecting facilities: how much evidence is enough? Supervised injecting facilities (SIF) have been shown to be highly effective interventions in reducing the harms associated with injecting drug use. To date a total of 28 methodologically rigorous studies have been published in leading peer-reviewed medical journals [1]. This growing body of evidence indicates that SIFs are associated with reductions in needle and syringe sharing, overdoses, public injecting and numbers of publicly discarded syringes [2 – 6], increased uptake of drug detoxification and addiction treatment pro-grammes [7] and have not led to increases in drug-related crime or rates of relapse among former drug users [8,9]. Despite this evidence, SIFs continue to attrac