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Hepatitis C and HIV co-infection, viral load, and liver enzyme profiles among intravenous and non-intravenous drug users in Jorhat, Assam: a comparative analysis [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a serious global public health issue, especially for intravenous drug users (IVDUs), who are more vulnerable because of risky behaviours, including sharing needles.
Pinkee Phukon, Barbi Gogoi, Angshurekha Das, Sima Kumari Dutta, Purnima Barua   +4 more
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Drug use trajectory patterns among older drug users

Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation, 2011
Miriam Boeri, Thor Whalen, Benjamin Tyndall, Ellen BallardKennesaw State University, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw GA, USAAbstract: To better understand patterns of drug use trajectories over time, it is essential to have ...
Tyndall B, Whalen T, Boeri M, Ballard E
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Drug users in prison [PDF]

BMJ, 1994
EDITOR, — Michael Ross and colleagues make an impassioned plea for better provision of care for drug users in prisons.1 Dependent drug users presenting to the prison service should have access to appropriate treatment, and, as the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recently pointed out, there should be continuity of …
M, Farrell, J, Strang
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Vancouver’s Alcohol Knowledge Exchange: lessons learned from creating a peer-involved alcohol harm reduction strategy in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Despite high rates of harm attributable to alcohol use itself and the associated marginalization of illicit drinkers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), alcohol-specific harm reduction services there are under-resourced and highly disconnected from ...
Aaron Bailey, Brittany Graham, Myles Harps, George Sedore   +3 more
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Epidemiology and treatment status of hepatitis C virus infection among people who have ever injected drugs in Korea: a prospective multicenter cohort study from 2007 to 2019 in comparison with non-PWID [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2021
OBJECTIVES Injection drug use is a major risk factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; however, limited data on this topic are available in Korea.
Kyung-Ah Kim, Gwang Hyun Choi, Eun Sun Jang, Young Seok Kim, Youn Jae Lee, In Hee Kim, Sung Bum Cho, Moran Ki, Hwa Young Choi, Dahye Paik, Sook-Hyang Jeong   +10 more
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The overdose epidemic: a study protocol to determine whether people who use drugs can influence or shape public opinion via mass media

Health & Justice, 2022
Background We are currently witnessing an ongoing drug overdose death epidemic in many nations linked to the distribution of illegally manufactured potent synthetic opioids.
Ehsan Jozaghi, VANDU
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Combining respondent-driven sampling with a community-based participatory action study of people who smoke drugs in two cities in British Columbia, Canada

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background The smoking of illicit drugs presents a serious social and economic burden in Canada. People who smoke drugs (PWSD) are at increased risk of contracting multiple infections through risky drug practices.
Sulaf Elkhalifa, Ehsan Jozaghi, Samona Marsh, Erica Thomson, Delilah Gregg, Jane Buxton, Ann Jolly   +6 more
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Social network support and harm reduction activities in a peer researcher-led pilot study, British Columbia, Canada

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background People who smoke drugs (PWSD) are at high risk of both infectious disease and overdose. Harm reduction activities organized by their peers in the community can reduce risk by providing education, safer smoking supplies, and facilitate access ...
Sulaf Elkhalifa, Ehsan Jozaghi, Samona Marsh, Erica Thomson, Delilah Gregg, Jane Buxton, Ann Jolly   +6 more
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The drug war must end: The right to life, liberty and security of the person during the COVID-19 pandemic for people who use drugs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Since the start of the opioid epidemic in 2016, the Downtown Eastside community of Vancouver, Canada, has lost many pioneering leaders, activists and visionaries to the war on drugs.
VANDU, WAHRS, BCAPOM, Russ Maynard, Ehsan Jozaghi   +4 more
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The War on Drugs - a war on drug users? [PDF]

Drugs: education, prevention and policy, 2000
The authors argue that since the 1980s UK drug policy has largely been ill considered, reactive and counter- productive. Rather than reducing drug taking and drug related crime, such policies have exacerbated the problem and contributed towards an environment in which drug use and illegal drug activities are likely to flourish.
Buchanan, Julian, Young, L
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