We are long past the day when anyone doubts that drug laws and law enforcement policies can have a powerful, negative impact on the risks of infection, injury and death among drug users (). Police and corrections staff through their day-to-day interactions with drug users shape “the risk environment” by making it more or less feasible to obtain or carry sterile injection equipment, and to take the time to safely conduct an injection ().
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Conclusion: The injection of fentanyl is associated with elevated injecting risk behaviour derived from injection practice and situational risk factors, and needs urgently targeted interventions. (Source: International Journal of Drug Policy)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Conclusion: MMT constitutes one of the main components of the Iran Prison Organization’s comprehensive HIV prevention package and is becoming increasingly accessible to opioid-dependent prisoners in Iran. Our findings indicate that the MMT program in Ghezel Hesar prison has been helpful for many opioid-dependent prisoners to reduce their risk of drug-related harm and to ease social and financial burden over their families. Meanwhile, existing barriers against provision of MMT should be properly addressed before further scale up of the program.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Abstract: Political-economic transitions in the Soviet Union, Indonesia, and China, but not the Philippines, were followed by HIV epidemics among drug users. Wars also may sometimes increase HIV risk.
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Tagged china, events, first-critique, infecti, infection, philippines, probability, sociology, soviet, soviet-union, the-following, the-probability, the-uninfected, uninfected
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Abstract: Political-economic transitions in the Soviet Union, Indonesia, and China, but not the Philippines, were followed by HIV epidemics among drug users.
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Tagged china, events, first-critique, indonesia, infecti, philippines, probability, sociology, soviet, the-following, the-probability, the-uninfected, uninfected
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Conclusion: Source and type of heroin are structural factors in the risk environment of heroin users: source dictates distribution and type predicts practice. How specific types of heroin are used and with what risk is therefore distributed geographically. Continued flux in the heroin market and its effects on the risk environment for drug users deserves further attention.
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Tagged attention, heroin, heroin-users, international, its-effects, policy, risk, source, source-dictates, specific-types, the-heroin, the-risk, users-deserves
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Conclusion: Local social and structural elements influence risk environments for overdose. Interventions at the community and structural levels to prevent and respond to opioid overdoses are needed for and integral to reducing overdose mortality in St. Petersburg
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Conclusion: Drug dealers shape, and are shaped by, their risk environments.
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Tagged dealers-shape, drug-use, embodiment, international, memories, practices, processes, the-economic, the-memories, the-processes, transformation
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Conclusions: Social networks are central to young people’s management of the risk environment associated with post-Soviet economic transformation.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Conclusion: Inner-city schools may both reflect and reproduce existing patterns of drug use. The concept of risk hierarchies may be important when designing and evaluating school-based drug-prevention strategies. (Source: International Journal of Drug Policy)