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Efficacy of mobile telephone contact for follow-up in injecting heroin users.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Conclusions: Despite limited effort, and despite the severe situation of intravenous heroin users, mobile telephone contact can be used with heavy drug users in the present setting. PMID: 21189096 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

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Evaluation of prooxidant-antioxidant balance in chronic heroin users in a single assay: an identification criterion for antioxidant supplementation.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Conclusions: Chronic heroin users can benefit from an antioxidant therapy, and the method currently presented can be used as an identification criterion. PMID: 20560843 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

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Comparative rates of violent crime among regular methamphetamine and opioid users: offending and victimization

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Aims To determine the comparative levels of violent offending and victimization among regular methamphetamine and heroin users.Design Cross-sectionalSetting Sydney, Australia.Participants A total of 400 regular methamphetamine (METH) and heroin (HER) users (118 methamphetamine users: METH; 161 regular heroin users: HER; 121 regular users of both: BOTH).Findings Eighty-two per cent reported a life-time history of committing violent crime, 41% in the past 12 months. There were no group differences in life-time violence, but the METH group were significantly more likely than the HER group to have committed violence in the past 12 months (odds ratio 1.94)

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Treatment Entry among Individuals on a Waiting List for Methadone Maintenance.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Conclusions: Additional research is needed on the relationship between motivation and treatment entry.

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Heroin in brown, black and white: Structural factors and medical consequences in the US heroin market

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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Social networks, norms, and 12-step group participation.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Authors: Davey-Rothwell MA, Kuramoto SJ, Latkin CA In a sample of active drug users, we assessed the associations between frequency of attending a 12-step program, perceived social norms, and social network structure. Participants who reported that most or all of their drug partners attended 12-step groups were over ten times more likely to be frequent attenders compared to individuals who did not go to Narcotics Anonymous (NA).

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