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Offline TimG

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Our findings provide reassurance that supervised injection facilities (Figure 1) are unlikely to result in reduced use of addiction-treatment services.
Except they did no such thing because they did not compare there results with any control group. All they did is determine that if someone talked to an addiction counselor they were more likely to seek detox when compared to other users of the SIS. All this shows is that having addiction counselors on hand is important but does not tell us whether addicts are less likely to seek detox as a result of the SIS. The only way to get that data is to look at the life-cycle of addict in cities with and without a SIS while controlling for factors like the availability of detox beds and addiction counselors.