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The At-Risk Youth Study is an affiliated cohort study focusing on at-risk youth in Vancouver aged 14вЂ“26 years. Long-running cohort studies include the Vancouver Injection Drug Use Study, which assesses health status of persons who inject drugs (PWID) in Vancouver. Drug information is collected in the context of cohort studies or cross-sectional surveys in sentinel city sites.

In British Columbia (BC), there is monitoring of drug use trends and harms experienced among high-risk populations. Changes in drug supply and method of use may put persons who use drugs (PWUD) at higher risk of overdose and other harms due to lack of familiarity with a new drug's potency and health risks.

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In the past decade, there has been increasing prevalence of crack cocaine smoking and decreased use of heroin outside of major port cities with a concurrent increase in the use of diverted prescription opioids. In Canada, there is geographic variation in drug use often based on regional drug trafficking activities affecting drug availability. Illicit drug use is a major contributor to premature mortality and preventable morbidity and disability worldwide. Drug use frequencies differed substantially by region and community proximity to the regional centre, underlining the need for locally collected data to inform service planning. The survey was a feasible way for harm reduction sites across BC to obtain drug use data from clients who actively use drugs. Participating sites found the survey process acceptable, feasible to administer annually, and useful for responding to client needs. There was no difference in powder cocaine use by client/site proximity to the regional centre. Participants accessing services >50В km from the regional centre were more likely to have used morphine ( pвЂ‰<вЂ‰0.0001). Respondents surveyed in or near their region's major centre were more likely to report having used crack cocaine ( pвЂ‰50В km from the major centre. Polysubstance use was common among respondents (70%) with one region having 81% polysubstance use. ResultsД¬rack cocaine, heroin, and morphine were the most frequently reported drugs with notable regional differences. A post-survey evaluation was conducted to assess acceptability and feasibility of the survey process for participating sites. Data were collated and analysed using univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics to assess differences in reported drug use frequencies by geography.

MethodsДЄ pilot survey focusing on current drug use was developed with stakeholders and administered among clients at 28 HR supply distribution sites across the province by existing staff and peers.

The aims of this project were to (1) develop a drug use survey that could be feasibly administered at harm reduction (HR) sites across all health regions and (2) assess the data for differences in reported drug use frequencies by region. Harm reduction stakeholders, representing each of the five geographic health regions in BC, identified a need for data on drug use to inform local and regional harm reduction activities across the province. In British Columbia (BC), understanding of high-risk drug use trends is largely based on survey and cohort study data from two major cities, which may not be representative of persons who use drugs in other regions.