Understanding injecting drug use in Afghanistan: A scoping review [PDF]
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2022 Background Several reports have described a growing prevalence of illicit drug use in Afghanistan, with recognition of a recent shift from traditional modes of consumption involving inhalation and oral ingestion to injecting drug use. Objective Conduct a
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Awareness of HCV Status and Preferences for Testing and Treatment among People with Recent Injecting Drug Use at a Peer-Led Needle and Syringe Program: The TEMPO Pilot Study [PDF]
Viruses, 2022 Background: New technologies and therapies allow the possibility of a single-visit test and treat model for hepatitis C virus (HCV), addressing some of the barriers to care faced by people who inject drugs.
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Acceptability of prison-based take-home naloxone programmes among a cohort of incarcerated men with a history of regular injecting drug use [PDF]
Harm Reduction Journal, 2018 Background Take-home naloxone (THN) programmes are an evidence-based opioid overdose prevention initiative. Elevated opioid overdose risk following prison release means release from custody provides an ideal opportunity for THN initiatives.
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Changing age profile and incidence of injecting drug use initiation among people in Australia who inject drugs: evidence from two national repeated cross-sectional studiesResearch in context [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. Western PacificSummary: Background: The age of people who inject drugs appears to be increasing in some high-income countries. We aimed to explore trends in the age of people injecting and recently starting to inject drugs in Australia, and to model incidence of ...
Olivia Price +11 more
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Elbasvir and grazoprevir for hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection in people with recent injecting drug use (DARLO‐C): An open‐label, single‐arm, phase 4, multicentre trial [PDF]
Health Science Reports, 2020 Background and Aims Direct‐acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) is effective, but few prospective studies among people with ongoing injecting drug use exist.
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The associations of poor psychiatric well-being among incarcerated men with injecting drug use histories in Victoria, Australia [PDF]
Health & Justice, 2018 Background Dual substance dependence and psychiatric and psychological morbidities are overrepresented in prison populations and associated with reoffending.
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Infectious Complications in Injection Drug Use [PDF]
MedEdPORTAL, 2021 The prevalence of opioid use disorder has increased steadily over the last decade (from 2.2 million in 2010 to 10.2 million in 2018) and with it, a surge in infectious complications associated with injection drug use (IDU). Trainees in internal medicine routinely diagnose, manage, and treat patients experiencing these infections in the hospital setting
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Pregnancy and injecting drug use [PDF]
BMJ, 2008 Injecting drug use has adverse effects on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes. Methadone treatment improves birth rate but carries a risk of neonatal abstinence syndrome; withdrawal of methadone during pregnancy is not ...
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Injecting drug use, the skin and vasculature [PDF]
Addiction, 2020 ABSTRACTDamage to the skin, subcutaneous tissues and blood vessels are among the most common health harms related to injecting drug use. From a limited range of early reports of injecting‐related skin and soft tissue damage there is now an increasing literature relating to new drugs, new contaminants and problems associated with unsafe injection ...
Roy Robertson +2 more
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Continued high prevalence of HIV, HBV and HCV among injecting and noninjecting drug users in Italy
Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2010 We estimated the prevalence of HIV, HBV and HCV infections among injecting and non-injecting drug users treated within public drug-treatment centres in Italy to determine the correlates of infection.
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