ABSTRACT Aims: To determine the incidence of long-term injection cessation and its association with residential relocation and neighborhood deprivation. Design: ALIVE (AIDS Linked to the Intravenous Experience) is a prospective cohort with semi-annual follow-up since 1988. Multi-level discrete time-to-event models were constructed to investigate individual and neighborhood-level predictors of long-term injection cessation
Filed in Evidence Base, cocaine
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Also tagged cocaine, destination, effectiveness, follow-up-since, highly-deprived, incidence, intravenous, its-association, less-deprived, long-term, the-deprivation, the-destination, usa
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In their paper “What is the role of harm reduction when drug users say they want abstinence?” have raised one of the key questions that the field of addictions treatment needs now to grapple with. As Neale and her co-authors have pointed out, there is a growing movement within the U.K. in which emphasis is being given to the importance of ensuring that drug treatment services are working towards drug users becoming drug free.
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction, recovery
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Also tagged achievements, architects, attention, harm-reduction, importance, modern, national, over-the-last, reduction-ideas, the-ascendancy
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Illicit drug overdose deaths in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside dropped by 35 per cent after the establishment of Insite, North America’s first supervised injection facility, according a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS…
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Also tagged after-the-establishment, british, centre, downtown-eastside, drug-overdose, establishment, excellence, insite, north, north-america, university, vancouver
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Background: Proper knowledge of HIV transmission is not enough for people to adopt protective behaviors, but deficits in this information may increase HIV/AIDS vulnerability. Objective: To assess drug users’ knowledge of HIV/AIDS and the possible association between knowledge and HIV testing.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Abstract: Background: The transition of drug policy from prohibition to harm reduction has never been easy. The deeply entrenched belief in prohibition shared by policy makers and religious leaders provided little room for alternatives, and change came only slowly. The non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Malaysia played a pivotal role in effecting such a change
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged both-the-harm, from-the-state, harm-reduction, health, health-ministry, malaysia, millennium, muslim, ngos, prevalence, prohibition, state, varying-success
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Reuters, in a piece exploring the issue of heroin use in Russia describes how the country’s “drug problem has now become an AIDS problem.” Despite having what Reuters refers to as “one of the world’s biggest heroin problems, with up to three million addicts according to local non-governmental organizations …
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Also tagged biggest-heroin, country, describes-how, drug-problem, exploring-the-issue, issue, piece-exploring, russia, the-country, the-issue, the-world, world
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Congress Must Honor Obama’s Global Fund Commitment “There are some encouraging signs in the epic battle against AIDS and HIV infections. … But those bright spots dim considerably in the face of the fact that about 7,100 people a day become infected.
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Also tagged 100-people, advances, commitment, congress-must, day-become, epic, face, fact, global, global-fund, hiv / aids, honor-obama, need-every, spots-dim
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Ahead of World AIDS Day, the International Federation of the Red Cross on Friday released a report (.pdf) calling for governments around the world to do more to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS among populations of injecting drug users (IDUs), the Associated Press reports (Heilprin, 11/25). “The United Nations estimates that approximately 15…
Thursday, November 4, 2010
ABSTRACT Aims To estimate all-cause mortality rate and to assess predictors of all-cause mortality among injection drug users (IDUs) in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam between 2005 and 2007.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged 13-fold-higher, among-injection, drug-injectors, drug-overdose, family-members, fixed-baseline, hazards-models, incidence-rate, independent, mortality-rate, mortality-ratio, vietnam, vietnamese
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A mobile outreach program staffed by current and former sex workers is associated with increased entry to detoxification and residential drug treatment among women in street-based sex work, according to an evaluation led by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia (UBC)…
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Also tagged among-women, british, british-columbia, centre, evaluation-led, excellence, hiv, increased-entry, program-staffed, sexual health / stds, ubc, university
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