Urban Social Issues Study: impacts of the Lethbridge supervised safe consumption site on the local neighborhood

Abstract

The Urban Social Issues Study (USIS) was a longitudinal study that measured and explored perceptions and observations of social disorder by business owners and operators in downtown Lethbridge over a period of 13 months, a period during which a supervised consumption service was implemented in the study area. The purpose of the study was not to determine if supervised consumption should be a public service in Lethbridge, but rather to explore any unintended consequences of these services.