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Estimating prevalence of injecting drug users and associated heroin-related death rates in England by using regional data and incorporating prior information [PDF]

, 2013
Injecting drug users (IDUs) have a direct social and economic effect yet can typically be regarded as a hidden population within a community. We estimate the size of the IDU population across the nine different Government Office regions of England in ...
Ruth King, Bird, Sheila, Overstall, Antony M., Bird, Sheila M, Hutchinson, Sharon, Sheila M. Bird, Sharon J. Hutchinson, Hutchinson, Sharon; id_orcid, Hutchinson, Sharon J., Overstall, Antony, Antony M. Overstall, King, Ruth, Hay, Gordon, Gordon Hay   +13 more
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High risk behavior for HIV transmission among former injecting drug users:a survey from Indonesia

BMC Public Health, 2010
Background Injecting drug use is an increasingly important cause of HIV transmission in most countries worldwide, especially in eastern Europe, South America, and east and southeast Asia.
Iskandar Shelly, Basar Diba, Hidayat Teddy, Siregar Ike MP, Pinxten Lucas, van Crevel Reinout, Van der Ven Andre JAM, De Jong Cor AJ   +7 more
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Profiles of risk: a qualitative study of injecting drug users in Tehran, Iran

Harm Reduction Journal, 2006
Background In Iran, there are an estimated 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). Injecting drug use is a relatively new phenomenon for this country, where opium smoking was the predominant form of drug use for hundreds of years.
Green Traci, Movaghar Afarin, Razzaghi Emran M, Khoshnood Kaveh   +3 more
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Prevalence and determinants of hepatitis C virus infection among female drug injecting sex workers in Glasgow [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Few studies of the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have focussed on women who work as street sex workers to finance their drug use. Methods: The investigators report the survey findings of such a population in Glasgow.
Goldberg, David J., Goldberg, DJ, Taylor, Avril, Cameron, Sheila, Carr, Susan, Cameron, S., Susan Carr, Sharon J Hutchinson, Gilchrist, Gail, Hutchinson, S.J., Hutchinson, SJ, Taylor, A, Taylor, A., Gail Gilchrist, Hutchinson, S.J.; id_orcid, Carr, S., Carr, S, Sheila Cameron, Gilchrist, G., Goldberg, David J, Gilchrist, Gail; id_orcid, Goldberg, D.J., Gilchrist, G, Hutchinson, Sharon J., Cameron, S, David J Goldberg, Avril Taylor, Hutchinson, Sharon J   +27 more
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Estimating the number of people who inject drugs in Australia

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Injecting drug use is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Estimates of the size of the population of people who inject drugs are critical to inform service planning and estimate disease burden due to injecting drug use.
Sarah Larney, Matthew Hickman, Rebecca Guy, Jason Grebely, Gregory J. Dore, Richard T. Gray, Carolyn A. Day, Jo Kimber, Louisa Degenhardt   +8 more
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Hospital Costs of Injection Drug Use in Florida [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
Abstract People who inject drugs (PWID) experience significant injection-related infections (IRIs) at significant healthcare system cost. This study used and validated an algorithm based on the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, to estimate hospitalized PWID populations, assess the total statewide morbidity for ...
Austin E Coye, Kasha J Bornstein, Tyler S Bartholomew, Hua Li, Stanley Wong, Naveed Z Janjua, Hansel E Tookes, Joan E St Onge   +7 more
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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness

, 2010
This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
Rhodes, T., Kerr, Thomas, Palmateer, N., Goldberg, David J., Hedrich, Dagmar, Palmateer, Norah, Fry, Craig L, Goldberg, David, Palmateer, Norah; id_orcid, Rhodes, Tim, Goldberg, D.J., Stöver, H., Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon, Hall, Wayne, Hickman, M., Brentari, C., Kimber, J., Kimber, Jo, Fischer, Benedikt, Hutchinson, S.J., Stevens, Alex, Dubois-Arber, Françoise, Hutchinson, Sharon J.; id_orcid   +23 more
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Beyond ‘peer pressure’: rethinking drug use and ‘youth culture’ [PDF]

, 2006
The study of drug use by young people in the West has been transformed over the last decade by the development of sociological approaches to drug use which take serious account of the cultural context in which young people encounter drugs.
Pilkington, Hilary
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HIV risk behaviours among women who inject drugs in coastal Kenya: findings from secondary analysis of qualitative data

Harm Reduction Journal, 2019
Background Injecting drug users are at high risk of HIV infection globally. Research related to female drug users is rare in Kenya, yet it is required to inform the development of gender-sensitive HIV prevention and harm reduction services in East Africa,
Gitau Mburu, Mark Limmer, Paula Holland
doaj   +1 more source

Does sexuality matter? A cross-sectional study of drug use, social injecting, and access to injection-specific care among men who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) are overrepresented in cohorts of people who inject drugs. GBMSM’s substance use is usually explored in the context of its contribution to sexual risk.
Sophia E. Schroeder, A. L. Wilkinson, D. O’Keefe, A. Bourne, J. S. Doyle, M. Hellard, P. Dietze, A. Pedrana   +7 more
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