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Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2022 Background: Opioids and stimulants are the most commonly injected illicit drugs worldwide and in Australia. While some people who inject drugs (PWID) prefer either opioids or stimulants, others regularly use both opioids and stimulants. Limited available
L. Brener +6 more
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Dynamic modelling of hepatitis C virus transmission among people who inject drugs: a methodological review [PDF]
, 2014 Equipment sharing among people who inject drugs (PWID) is a key risk factor in infection by hepatitis C virus (HCV). Both the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing HCV transmission in this population (such as opioid ...
Cousien, Anthony +5 more
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Imprisonment, injecting drug use, and bloodborne viruses [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 The possibility that imprisonment is a risk factor for HIV transmission has been much debated, even though the association between imprisonment, use of injecting drugs, and the transmission of another bloodborne virus, hepatitis B, was recognised more than 20 years ago.1 In the past five years, clusters of cases of acute hepatitis B infection ...
O N, Gill, A, Noone, J, Heptonstall
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Injection drug use and right sided endocarditis [PDF]
Heart, 2003 If William Osler were alive today he would no doubt remark on the fundamental change in the nature of the disease that he originally described. Staphylococcal endocarditis in injection drug users is now the dominant form of the disease in many urban communities where there is a high incidence of injection drug use and homelessness.
Rob, Moss, Brad, Munt
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Drug Policy and the HIV Pandemic in Russia and Ukraine [PDF]
, 2004 Over the past three years Russia and Ukraine have experienced one of the fastest growing HIV pandemics in Europe. In contrast to other parts of the world, the main driver behind the rate of infection is injecting drug use. Recent government policies have
Klein, Axel +2 more
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Characteristics of drug users who do or do not have care of their children
, 2004 Aims - To compare the relative frequency of eight indicators of problem drug use and potentially adverse social circumstances in drug using parents and non-parents and to explore whether a profile based on these characteristics differs according to ...
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Association between harm reduction intervention uptake and skin and soft tissue infections among people who inject drugs [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Bacterial skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are a health issue for people who inject drugs (PWID). There is a lack of evidence on the associations between harm reduction (HR) uptake and SSTIs.
Dunleavy, Karen +7 more
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Necrotizing Fasciitis Associated with Injection Drug Use [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2001 We studied cases of necrotizing fasciitis among injection drug users (IDUs) and non-IDUs who presented at the University of California Davis Medical Center from 1984 through 1999. Of 107 patients, 59 (55%) were IDUs and 48 (45%) non-IDUs. Among IDUs, 32 (54%) recently injected at the site of infection, and 17 patients (29%) presented with an abscess ...
J L, Chen, K E, Fullerton, N M, Flynn
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Gut microbiota profiling in injection drug users with and without HIV-1 infection in Puerto Rico
Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionThe full extent of interactions between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, injection drug use, and the human microbiome is unclear.
Nirosh Aluthge +12 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2008 Background Stigma is a key barrier for the delivery of care to patients living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). In the Asia region, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has disproportionately affected socially marginalised groups, in particular, injecting drug users.
Stoové Mark A +2 more
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