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Understanding the Reasons for Sharing Syringes or Needles to Inject Drugs: Conventional Content Analysis [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2020
Background: This qualitative study was undertaken with the aim to identify the reasons for sharing syringesor needles among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Iran.Methods: We used purposive sampling to recruit 4 groups of participants, male PWID (n = 14),
Monireh Faghir-Gangi, Hadith Rastad, Saharnaz Nedjat, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Kamran Yazdani, Ali Mirzazadeh   +5 more
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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
Goldberg, David, Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon, Kimber, Jo, Palmateer, Norah, Rhodes, Tim   +5 more
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Opioid Dependence Syndrome and Quality of Life: A Facility-based Exploratory Study among Drug Addicts at a Tertiary Care Hospital of Kolkata, India [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023
Introduction: Opioid dependence syndrome is considered a chronic-relapsing medical illness that can affect the Quality of Life (QoL) of Injecting Drug Users (IDUs).
Manika Pal, Dipendra Narayan Goswami, Madhumita Dobe   +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance Treatment in prevention of HIV among drug users in Shiraz, south of Iran [PDF]

, 2014
Background: The increase in high-risk injections and unsafe sexual behaviors has led to increased HIV infection prevalence among Intravenous Drug Users (IDUs). The high costs of HIV/AIDS care and low financial resources necessitate an economic evaluation
Heidari, A., Javanbakht, M., Keshtkaran, A., Mirahmadizadeh, A.   +3 more
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Identifying behaviours for survival and wellness among people who use methamphetamine with opioids in British Columbia: a qualitative study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background British Columbia (BC) has been in a state of public health emergency since 2016, due to the unprecedented numbers of fatal and non-fatal drug toxicity (i.e. overdose) events.
Jenny Corser, Heather Palis, Mathew Fleury, Jess Lamb, Kurt Lock, Jenny McDougall, Amiti Mehta, Cheri Newman, Heather Spence, Jane A. Buxton   +9 more
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Family burden in injecting versus noninjecting opioid users

Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2013
Background: A substance-dependent person in the family affects almost all aspects of family life that also impact the lives of the significant others and causes enormous burden.
Naresh Nebhinani, B N Anil, Surendra Kumar Mattoo, Debasish Basu   +3 more
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Differences in Gut Microbial Diversity are Driven by Drug Use and Drug Cessation by Either Compulsory Detention or Methadone Maintenance Treatment

Microorganisms, 2020
In this work, we investigate differences in gut microbial diversity driven by drug use or by the widely used methods for drug cessation: methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and compulsory detention (CD). Methods: 99 participants (28 CD participants, 16
Qiaoyan Li, Siqi Chen, Ke Liu, Danfeng Long, Diru Liu, Zhengchao Jing, Xiaodan Huang   +6 more
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Cancer3D: understanding cancer mutations through protein structures. [PDF]

, 2014
The new era of cancer genomics is providing us with extensive knowledge of mutations and other alterations in cancer. The Cancer3D database at http://www.cancer3d.org gives an open and user-friendly way to analyze cancer missense mutations in the context
Godzik, Adam, Hrabe, Thomas, Porta-Pardo, Eduard   +2 more
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Inference of the Russian drug community from one of the largest social networks in the Russian Federation

, 2013
The criminal nature of narcotics complicates the direct assessment of a drug community, while having a good understanding of the type of people drawn or currently using drugs is vital for finding effective intervening strategies.
Boukhanovsky, A. V., Dijkstra, L. J., Duijn, P. A. C., Sloot, P. M. A., Yakushev, A. V.   +4 more
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Prospective memory functioning among ecstasy/polydrug users: evidence from the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT) [PDF]

, 2011
Rationale: Prospective memory (PM) deficits in recreational drug users have been documented in recent years. However, the assessment of PM has largely been restricted to self-reported measures that fail to capture the distinction between event-based and
A Costa, A Miyake, A Rey, BA Wilson, BA Wilson, BG Tabachnick, C Montgomery, C Montgomery, C Montgomery, C Thompson, Catharine Montgomery, CC Adda, D Tomasi, DM Spooner, F Hadjiefthyvoulou, Florentia Hadjiefthyvoulou, HC Fox, HG Pope Jr, J Fleming, J Okuda, J Raven, J Rodgers, J Rodgers, JD Henry, JE Fisk, JE Fisk, John E. Fisk, JR Crawford, JR Leitz, KL Medina, L Reneman, L Reneman, M Kliegel, MA McDaniel, N Solowij, Nikola Bridges, PG Rendell, PG Rendell, PG Rendell, PN Murphy, PW Burgess, R Hannon, RA Dixon, RL Marsh, RM Roth, S McHale, SJ Gilbert, T Martin, T Paraskevaides, TM Heffernan, TM Heffernan, Y Goto, YCT Groot   +52 more
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