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Global prevalence of injecting drug use and sociodemographic characteristics and prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV in people who inject drugs: a multistage systematic review.

Lancet Glob Health, 2017
Degenhardt L, Peacock A, Colledge S, Leung J, Grebely J, Vickerman P, Stone J, Cunningham EB, Trickey A, Dumchev K, Lynskey M, Griffiths P, Mattick RP, Hickman M, Larney S.   +14 more
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Factors Associated With Opioid Agonist Treatment Engagement and Harm Reduction Service Use: Findings From the New South Wales Opioid Dependence Survey. [PDF]

Drug Alcohol Rev
Santo T, Bharat C, Rodgers C, Harrod M, Taylor S, Zahra E, Sutherland R, Peacock A, Grebely J, Hickman M, Farrell M, Degenhardt L.   +11 more
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Stability or versatility: transitions in fentanyl routes of administration. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J
Ondocsin J, Mars SG, Holm N, Schlosser A, Fessel J, Cowan A, Duke M, Ciccarone D.   +7 more
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Infectious Complications of Injection Drug Use

Medical Clinics of North America, 2022
The opioid overdose epidemic is one of the leading causes of death in adults. Its devastating effects have included not only a burgeoning overdose crisis but also multiple converging infectious diseases epidemics. The use of both opioids and other substances through intravenous (IV) administration places individuals at increased risks of infectious ...
Laura R, Marks, Nathanial S, Nolan, Stephen Y, Liang, Michael J, Durkin, Melissa B, Weimer   +4 more
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Injecting drug use: Gendered risk

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2018
Research demonstrates gender related differences in drug-use practices and risk behaviours. Females' structural vulnerability stemming from traditional gender roles and gender-power relations may enhance their propensity to experience injecting related risk.
Zahnow, Renee, Winstock, Adam R., Maier, Larissa J., Levy, Jay, Ferris, Jason   +4 more
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Injection drug use in North America

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2002
Injection drug use of psychotropic agents for nontherapeutic purposes is associated with some of the most pernicious infectious diseases seen in the United States. There is an inextricable link between infection, injection drug use (IDU) and other risk behaviors, especially those related to sexual activity.
Eugene P, Schoener, John A, Hopper, James D, Pierre   +2 more
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Injection Drug Use

Archives of Dermatology, 2007
Injection drug use has devastating effects on the veins, skin, muscles, and joints of the lower extremities, thus increasing the risk of chronic venous disease (CVD). We examined the following risk factors for CVD in persons who injected drugs: health and drug use history, ankle mobility, pain, and skin and wound assessment.
Barbara, Pieper, Robert S, Kirsner, Thomas N, Templin, Thomas J, Birk   +3 more
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Predictors of unsafe injecting drug use

Drug and Alcohol Review, 1994
AbstractThis paper reports on the incidence of unsafe injecting and the factors which influence this practice in a sample of 1245 Sydney injecting drug users (IDUs). Using a needle and syringe after someone else at some time in the last six months was reported in 41.6% of the sample.
B R, Crisp, J G, Barber, M W, Ross, A, Wodak, J, Gold, M E, Miller   +5 more
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Ocular manifestations of injection drug use

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2002
Injection drug use can result in a variety of severe ocular conditions. Hematogenous dissemination of various fungi and bacteria may produce endophthalmitis with resultant severe visual loss. Retinal arterial occlusive disease may result from talc and other particulate emboli.
Rubin W, Kim, Mark S, Juzych, Dean, Eliott   +2 more
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Injection Drug Use and Wound Care

Nursing Clinics of North America, 2005
Persons who have injected drugs present challenges to providing wound care. They tend to have multiple physical and psychosocial problems and abuse many substances. They may mistrust health care providers because of past experiences and their perceived negative attitude toward providers. Because they often self-treat abscesses and wounds before seeking
Barbara, Pieper, John A, Hopper
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