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The Drug Problem and Organized Crime, Illicit Financial Flows, Corruption and Terrorism [PDF]

, 2017
An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...

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Exploring how substance use impedes engagement along the HIV care continuum: A qualitative exploration

Frontiers in Public Health, 2016
Drug use is associated with low uptake of HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART), an under-studied step in the HIV care continuum, and insufficient engagement in HIV primary care.
Marya eGwadz, Marya eGwadz, Rebecca ede Guzman, Robert eFreeman, Alexandra eKutnick, Elizabeth eSilverman, Noelle Regina Leonard, Noelle Regina Leonard, Amanda Spring Ritchie, Corrine eMunoz-Plaza, Nadim eSalomon, Hannah eWolfe, Christopher eHilliard, Christopher eHilliard, Charles eCleland, Charles eCleland, Sylvie eHonig, Sylvie eHonig   +17 more
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Teenage drug use [PDF]

BMJ, 1996
On the increase, and clear links with advertising and sports sponsorship Are young people in Britain rapidly descending into a state of Hogarthian depravity, as they stagger from the tobacconists to the boozer, mugging an old lady on the way to pay the neighbourhood drug pusher?
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Drug use in the year after prison [PDF]

, 2019
With poor health and widespread drug problems in the U.S. prison population, post-prison drug use provides an important measure of both public health and social integration following incarceration.
Simes, Jessica T., Western, Bruce
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Using drugs safely

BMJ, 2002
The recent Audit Commission report A Spoonful of Sugar was grim reading.1 The report suggested that nearly 1100 people died last year in England and Wales as a result of medication errors or adverse reactions to medicines and that the number had increased fivefold in just 10 years.
Simon, Maxwell, Tom, Walley, Robin E, Ferner   +2 more
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It’s a Process: Reactions to HIV Diagnosis and Engagement in HIV Care among High-Risk Heterosexuals

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
After HIV diagnosis, heterosexuals in high-poverty urban areas evidence delays in linkage to care and antiretroviral therapy initiation compared to other groups.
Alexandra H. Kutnick, Marya Viorst Gwadz, Charles M. Cleland, Noelle R. Leonard, Robert Freeman, Amanda S. Ritchie, Talaya McCright-Gill, Kathy Ha, Belkis Y. Martinez, The BCAP Collaborative Research Team   +9 more
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The impact of drug treatment courts on recovery: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction. Earlier reviews regarding the effectiveness of Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) reported a reduction in reoffending and substance use. Although substance users suffer from other difficulties than drug use and judicial issues, none of these ...
De Ruyver, Brice, Dekkers, Anne, Vander Laenen, Freya, Vanderplasschen, Wouter, Wittouck, Ciska   +4 more
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Lifestyle risk indices in adolescence and their relationships to adolescent disease burden: findings from an Australian national survey

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background The current study investigates the extent to which an adolescent-specific lifestyle risk factor index predicts indicators of the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality.
Louise Mewton, Katrina Champion, Frances Kay-Lambkin, Matthew Sunderland, Louise Thornton, Maree Teesson   +5 more
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Neuroprotective Effect of Catalpol via Anti-Oxidative, Anti-Inflammatory, and Anti-Apoptotic Mechanisms

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020
Neuroinflammation and neuro-oxidative damage are now considered to be key factors in the neurological diseases. Therefore, it is important to study anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective agents.
Chunjing Yang, Chunjing Yang, Chunjing Yang, Zhengyuan Shi, Zhengyuan Shi, Zhengyuan Shi, Longtai You, Yuanyuan Du, Jian Ni, Dan Yan, Dan Yan, Dan Yan   +11 more
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Implementation of buprenorphine services in NYC syringe services programs: a qualitative process evaluation

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Syringe services programs (SSPs) hold promise for providing buprenorphine treatment access to people with opioid use disorder (OUD) who are reluctant to seek care elsewhere.
Andrea Jakubowski, Caroline Rath, Alex Harocopos, Monique Wright, Alice Welch, Jessica Kattan, Czarina Navos Behrends, Teresa Lopez-Castro, Aaron D. Fox   +8 more
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