"They expect everybody to put this mouth piece on a pipe and when they're sharing a pipe, to remove it every time, which is not the easiest thing to do," says Mr. Last month, figures released by faculty at the University of Victoria found about two-thirds of crack users in Vancouver and Victoria share pipes, which researchers warned was putting them at risk of HIV or hepatitis, even in cities that distribute mouth pieces.Īndrew Ivsins, a University of Victoria researcher who worked on the pipe-sharing data, says distributing mouth pieces without pipes doesn't eliminate the risk. found drug users who smoke crack cocaine were at an increased risk of contracting HIV. The research on crack use is limited and the precise risk isn't yet clear, but the evidence that smoking crack - and, in particular, sharing pipes - puts users in danger is building. Any decision on such a site will likely have to wait until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on the future of the city's safe-injection site, known as Insite. The calls for free crack pipes comes as advocates in Vancouver also push for a safe-inhalation site, where crack users could smoke the drug in the presence of health-care workers, who would respond to overdoses.
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