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
ABSTRACT Aims: To determine the effect of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) on mortality among injection drug users.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Botulism is a rare disease and recurrent botulism even more rare. However, in California, recurrent wound botulism among injection drug users has been on the rise and makes up three-quarters of reported cases in the United States.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
A recent 20-year study of injection drug users (IDUs) in Baltimore found a significant decline in new cases of HIV infection but only a slight decline in new cases of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The findings suggest that efforts to curb blood-borne transmission of these viral infections have had success but must be expanded against the highly transmissible HCV…
Thursday, November 4, 2010
ABSTRACT Aims To determine the comparative levels of and associations between policing interference and characteristics of US syringe exchange programs (SEPs). Design Cross-sectional. Setting A national survey of US SEPs
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Also tagged adverse-events, adverse-police, aligning-police, client-arrest, comparative, criminalized, department-were, disease-control, from-systematic, law-enforcement, national-survey, public-health
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Canada’s federal government has once again failed to shut North America’s only authorized supervised injection facility, Insite.
Background: Solvent abuse is a particularly serious issue affecting Aboriginal people. Here we examine the association between solvent use and socio-demographic variables, drug-related risk factors, and pathogen prevalence in Aboriginal injection drug users (IDU) in Manitoba, Canada. Methods: Data originated from a cross-sectional survey of IDU from December 2003 to September 2004.
In our 2005 study of injection drug users (IDUs) in two Mexico/US border cities, 7% reported paid plasma donation, mainly in the US where it remains legal. This practice was banned in Mexico in 1987. In a response to our paper (), it was suggested that most study participants donated plasma prior to the 1980s before increased safety standards were introduced.
Abstract: Background: Cross-sectional associations suggest that body art piercing (BAP) is a risk factor for hepatitis C (HCV) infection among injection drug users. The temporal basis of the relationship has not been established.Methods: Associations between HCV seropositivity, HCV incidence, recent BAP and BAP facility availability were evaluated among IDUs followed biannually between 2004 and 2008 in Montreal, Canada. A geographic information system was used to determine the availability of BAP facilities for each participant
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Also tagged association, associations, availability, bap, cross-sectional, hcv, models-included, montreal, relationship, temporal-basis, variables-were
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An increase in the number of injection drug users (IDUs) in eastern and southern Africa stands to harm efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region, warned experts gathered at the World Forum Against Drug conference in Sweden on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports…
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Also tagged africa, agence, aids, harm-efforts, hiv / aids, monday, region, spread, sweden, the-number, warned-experts, world, world-forum
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