Monday, December 19, 2011
Conclusions: The HCV infection was popular among opiate drug users in Beijing. The findings indicated the need for educating the users taking into account their low literacy levels and the necessity for job training and decreasing the injection drug use and the frequency of drug use administrated as the prevention and intervention methods for controlling the HIV/HCV infection in this population.
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Also tagged alcohol-abuse, frequency, injection, low-literacy, necessity, opiate-drug, population, prevention, the-frequency, the-necessity, the-prevention, users
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims We conducted a systematic review of studies reporting seroincidence of Hepatitis C infection (HCV) in relation to shared syringes and drug preparation equipment among injection drug users (IDUs). We identified 21 published and unpublished studies that met inclusion criteria
Abstract Aim: The study’s objectives were to characterize initiation of injection drug use, examine the independent association of specific substance use with injection drug use, and determine factors associated with rates of transition from first illicit drug use to first injection among a sample of rural Appalachian drug users. Design: Interview-administered questionnaires were administered to a sample of drug users recruited via respondent-driven sampling. Setting: Appalachian Kentucky Participants: Injection drug users (IDUs) (n=394) and non-IDUs (n=109) Measurements: Data were collected on substance use and years from age at initiation of illicit substance use to event’ (initiation of injection or date of baseline interview for non-IDUs).
Abstract Aims: To characterize factors associated with injection cessation, relapse and initiation. Design: MIDACS is a prospective cohort of injection drug users (IDUs) recruited in 2005-06 with semi-annual follow-up through 2009.
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) were recently awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), to improve upon the “seek, test, treat, and retain” paradigm in Eastern Europe among HIV-infected Russian and Eastern European injection drug users (IDUs) in narcology (addiction) care…
Abstract: Background: Prescription opioids are the most frequently misused class of prescription drugs amongst young adults. Initiation into prescription opioid misuse is an important public health concern since opioids are increasingly associated with drug dependence and fatal overdose. Descriptive data about initiation into prescription opioid misuse amongst young injection drug users (IDUs) are scarce.Methods: An exploratory qualitative study was undertaken to describe patterns of initiation into prescription opioid misuse amongst IDUs aged 16–25 years.
Abstract: Background: Income generation opportunities available to people who use illicit drugs have been associated with street disorder.
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Also tagged based-on-akaike, engagement, high-intensity, high-proportion, income, income-sources, prevalence, stimulant-drug, street-disorder, various-markers, well-as-binge
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Abstract: Mixed methods research is increasingly being promoted in the health sciences as a way to gain more comprehensive understandings of how social processes and individual behaviours shape human health.
A new study indicates high rates of injection drug use in urban Canadian Aboriginal youth, particularly in women, and points to the need for culturally specific prevention programs, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)…
This qualitative study of travel-related risk behaviours of Slovene injection drug users was based on interviews with individuals enrolled in drug addiction treatment programmes run by three regional centres for prevention and treatment of drug addiction. The primary objective of the study was to analyse behaviour patterns and practices of injection drug users during travel