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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 ...
James, Bell, Lucy, Harvey-Dodds
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Modeling the initiation of others into injection drug use, using data from 2,500 injectors surveyed in Scotland during 2008-2009 [PDF]

, 2014
The prevalence of injection drug use has been of especial interest for assessment of the impact of blood-borne viruses. However, the incidence of injection drug use has been underresearched.
Bird, Sheila M., Hutchinson, Sharon J., Taylor, Avril, White, Simon R.   +3 more
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Botulism due to Injection Drug Use

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2023
This scenario was developed to educate emergency medicine residents on the diagnosis and management of wound botulism secondary to injection drug use.Botulism is a relatively rare cause of respiratory failure and descending weakness in the United States, caused by prevention of presynaptic acetylcholine release at the neuromuscular junction.
Hoffman, Timothy, Yee, Jennifer
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Retrospective cohort study examining incidence of HIV and Hepatitis C infection among injecting drug users in Dublin. [PDF]

, 2003
Unsafe injecting results in increased rates of hepatitis C and HIV among populations of injecting drug users. It is well established that it is unsafe to use needles or syringes that have previously been used by another injecting drug user.
Barry, Joseph, Keenan, Eamon, O'Connor, John J, Smyth, Bobby P   +3 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.
Laura Camoni, Vincenza Regine, Maria Cristina Salfa, Giovanni Nicoletti, Pietro Canuzzi, Natalia Magliocchetti, Giovanni Rezza, Barbara Suligoi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Injecting drug use via femoral vein puncture: preliminary findings of a point-of-care ultrasound service for opioid-dependent groin injectors in treatment

Harm Reduction Journal, 2012
Background Within the UK, injecting in the femoral vein (FV), often called 'groin injecting', is a serious cause of risk and harm. This study aimed to use ultrasound scanning as a means to engage groin injectors (GIs), examine their femoral injecting ...
Senbanjo Richard, Tipping Tracey, Hunt Neil, Strang John   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating the cost-effectiveness of detecting cases of chronic hepatitis C infection on reception into prison [PDF]

, 2006
Background In England and Wales where less than 1% of the population are Injecting drug users (IDUs), 97% of HCV reports are attributed to injecting drug use. As over 60% of the IDU population will have been imprisoned by the age of 30 years, prison may
AJ Sutton, AJ Sutton, Andrew J Sutton, C Skipper, D Best, D de Angelis, EG Schlicting, GE Macalino, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, HM Treasury, HP Agency, JA Horne, K Roy, K Stein, L Curtis, L Weissing, LB Seeff, M Frischer, O Noel Gill, P Leal, P Mortimer, P Reuter, S Darke, W John Edmunds, W Limburg   +24 more
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When and how do individuals transition from regular drug use to injection drug use in Uganda? Findings from a rapid assessment

Harm Reduction Journal, 2019
Background In Uganda, injection drug use is a growing but less studied problem. Preventing the transition to injection drug use may help prevent blood-borne viral transmission, but little is known about when and how people transition to injection drug ...
Matayo Baluku, Twaibu Wamala
doaj   +1 more source

INJECTING DRUG USE AS A FACTOR CONTRIBUTES TO HIV-INFECTION

Медицинский вестник Юга России, 2015
Purpose: to determine the nature of the impact of injecting drug use on cellular immunity and assessment of the importance of drug use as a factor contributing to HIV infection and aff ect the course of disease in HIV- positive patients.Materials and ...
Е. P. Stanko, S. A. Lyalikov, S. A. Igumnov, V. M. Cyrkunov, N. V. Matievskya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid situational assessment of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Nairobi and coastal regions of Kenya: a respondent driven sampling survey

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background A Cross-sectional Rapid Situational Assessment of People Who Inject Drug (PWIDs) applying Respondent Driven sampling techniques (RDS) was used to recruit subjects/participants in a study aimed at assessing HIV prevalence and risk behaviors ...
Francis O. Oguya, Patrick R. Kenya, Francisca Ongecha, Patrick Mureithi, Helgar Musyoka, Nicholas Muraguri, Ben Mundia, Caleb Angira, Mohammed Shose, Taib A. Basheeb, Abdalla Ahmed Mohamed, John P. Oyore, Otieno G. Ochieng, Gabriel O. Dida, Saade Abdalla, Reychard Abdool   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source