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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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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
Hutchinson, Sharon +5 more
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Clinical and psychosocial predictors of attendance and drug use in heroin users undergoing treatment [PDF]
, 2008 The main aim of this thesis is to evaluate the Theory of Planned Behaviour's ability to identify predictors of intention and behaviour. The population of interest are heroin users; the behaviours are attendance at treatment services and heroin use during
Horspool, Michelle J.
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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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Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Background Several jurisdictions in Canada have recently considered decriminalizing possession of illicit drugs for personal use (henceforth, simple possession) as part of their responses to the ongoing drug toxicity/overdose crisis.
Kanna Hayashi +7 more
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Are drug treatment services only for 'thieving junkie scumbags'? Drug users and the management of stigmatised identities. [PDF]
, 2008 This article uses qualitative interviews with 53 problematic drug users who had dropped out of treatment in England, UK to explore how they describe the stigmatisation of drug users and drug services.
Stevens, Alex +2 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 To offer a critical reflection on an impoverished neighborhood in Vancouver, Canada, and their access to oral health care. A review of how a lack of publicly funded oral health care affects the most vulnerable, uninsured, and underserved citizens is ...
Ehsan Jozaghi +4 more
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Regional differences in HIV prevalence among drug users in China: potential for future spread of HIV? [PDF]
, 2008 Kretzschmar M, Zhang W, Mikolajczyk RT, et al. Regional differences in HIV prevalence among drug users in China: potential for future spread of HIV? BMC Infectious Diseases. 2008;8(1):108.Background: Drug use and in particular injecting drug use has been
Weidong Zhang +20 more
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An improved optimistic three-stage model for the spread of HIV amongst injecting intravenous drug users [PDF]
, 2009 We start off this paper with a brief introduction to modeling Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) amongst sharing, injecting drug users (IDUs). Then we describe the mathematical model which we shall use which
Greenhalgh, David +2 more
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Chronic Diseases Journal, 2021 BACKGROUND: Transitional stages of life are one of the most dangerous times for more vulnerability to drug abuse. The purpose of this study was to predict addiction based on procrastination, distress tolerance, and perceived competence in senior high ...
Emad El-din Ezatpour, Yahya Yarahmadi
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