The impact of Taiwan's implementation of a nationwide harm reduction program in 2006 on the use of various illicit drugs: trend analysis of first-time offenders from 2001 to 2017.

Harm Reduct J · 2021 · PMC8603590 · PMID 34798883

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In contrast, the first-time offense rate of methamphetamine had an increasing trend (0.66 per 100,000 per year; P = 0.09, borderline significance) and that of ecstasy had a decreasing trend (− 0.77 per 100,000 per year; P = 0.001) since 2001; neither rate was influenced by the intervention.

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There were baseline decreasing trends in the first-time offense rate from 2001 to 2017 for heroin and ecstasy and an increasing trend for methamphetamine, with the slopes not altered by the 2006 intervention.

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