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Bacterial Infections in Drug Users

New England Journal of Medicine, 2005
There are an estimated 13 million injection-drug users worldwide, and infections are among the most serious complications of drug use. This article reviews the common problems associated with drug use, including skin and soft-tissue infections, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and endovascular infections.
Rachel J, Gordon, Franklin D, Lowy
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Users: Service Users and the Drug User Movement

2010
In April 2006 a group of illegal drug user activists from around the world met at the 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Vancouver, Canada. Together they produced a ‘statement about the international network of people who use drugs’, a document that is, in effect, an international declaration of drug users’ rights ...
Alex Mold, Virginia Berridge
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Hepatitis vaccination among drug users

Vaccine, 2006
Hepatitis virus infections are traditionally a major health problem among drug users (DUs). Several factors may favor the rapid spread of hepatitis infection in this category of patients. HBV and HCV are easily transmitted through exposure to infected blood and body fluids. DUs often prepare and use drug solutions together. Many in the DU community are
QUAGLIO G, LUGOBONI F, MEZZELANI P, DES JARLAIS DC, LECHI, Alessandro   +4 more
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The Exploitation of Drug Users

Substance Use & Misuse, 2015
Drug users have been exploited in research studies and clinical practice. We explore ways in which exploitation has occurred and strategies to help patients, research subjects and communities to prevent or avoid exploitation.
Shirley, Stallings, Michael, Montagne
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Estimation of drug users and injecting drug users in Malaysia

2005
Malaysia treats the problem of drug addiction as a security issue. Since it was identified in the early 70s, the number of drug addicts is constantly on the rise. At present, the government provides all statistics pertaining to the number of drug users, abusers and addicts in the country.The monograph contains the full report that was submitted to the ...
Mohamed, Mahmood Nazar, Ali, Hassan, Ibrahim, Faisal, Jusoh, Ahamad   +3 more
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Women Drug Users

1993
Abstract The book provides an account of the lives and experiences of a group of female intravenous drug users in Glasgow. Based on participant observations of the women in their own setting and in-depth interviews, it is the first full ethnographic account of the lifestyle of female drug users.
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Persistent Dyskinesias in Drug Users

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1972
ABSTRACT To the Editor.— In this report we document persistent dyskinesias in adolescents who are members of the drug subculture in the United States and who take medications not by prescription and not therapeutically, but for behavioral and emotionally modifying responses.After the use of the phenothiazines became widespread, the attention of ...
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America’s Drug Users

1980
This advertisement appeared in the 1905 Sears, Roebuck & Company catalogue. The price per bottle for this cure: sixty-nine cents.
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VEGETARIANISM IN DRUG USERS

The Lancet, 1971
J T, Dwyer, J, Mayer
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Drug User Treatment Failure Blindness?

Substance Use & Misuse, 2012
An ethnographic case study of a "failed" single goal (abstinence) based individual and group therapy treatment of a New York City, Harlem-based, single, young-adult of color, IDU, mother, which ended in "death by overdose," after a period of abstinence, is presented almost 50 years later, in which complex, multidimensional structural barriers, "normed,"
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