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Antiretroviral therapy use and CD4 cell count among people who inject drugs living with HIV in southern Vietnam. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis
Thanh DC, Boettiger DC, Abdul-Quader A, Thanh Ha HT, Thang PH.   +4 more
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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]

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2014
Injecting drug users (IDUs) have a direct social and economical impact, 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 ...
Sheila Bird, Ruth King, Sharon J Hutchinson   +2 more
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Management of the hospitalized injection drug user

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2002
Patients with a history of injected drug use are often distrustful of the medical system. This attitude is generally based on problems in the management of pain or withdrawal or on hostility from medical providers in the past. When treated with respect and appropriate medical concern, hospitalized injection drug users will often actively seek to begin ...
John A, Hopper, Tariq, Shafi
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Fever and haemoptysis in an injecting drug user

BMJ, 2012
A 24 year old man presented with a 10 day history of fever, night sweats, weight loss, and a productive cough with occasional haemoptysis. He had a history of injecting drug use. He was on a community methadone replacement programme for opiate dependency. On examination, he had a fever (39.4°C), hypotension, and tachycardia.
Vishal, Luther, Jennifer, Townell, Haseeb, Rahman, Chee Yee, Loong   +3 more
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Causes of Death in Injection-Drug Users

New England Journal of Medicine, 1993
To the Editor: Why do injection-drug users continue to engage in risky behavior in the midst of the AIDS epidemic?
G E, Woody, D S, Metzger
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Resilient Children of Injection Drug Users

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004
To examine associations between resilience in children of injection drug users and children's coping strategies, parenting stress, and children's social support.Injection drug-using parents (n=91) and their children aged 6 to 11 (n=117) were recruited in Baltimore (1997-1999).
Daniel J, Pilowsky, Patricia A, Zybert, David, Vlahov   +2 more
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Infective endocarditis in the injection drug user

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2002
Although infective endocarditis is certainly not the most common infection seen in injecting drug users, it is the infection that clinicians most commonly think of when they consider infectious complications of injected drug use. The microbiology of infective endocarditis in injection drug users has remained relatively stable over the last several ...
Patricia D, Brown, Donald P, Levine
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Estimation of drug users and injecting drug users in Malaysia

2005
Malaysia treats the problem of drug addiction as a security issue. Since it was identified in the early 70s, the number of drug addicts is constantly on the rise. At present, the government provides all statistics pertaining to the number of drug users, abusers and addicts in the country.The monograph contains the full report that was submitted to the ...
Mohamed, Mahmood Nazar, Ali, Hassan, Ibrahim, Faisal, Jusoh, Ahamad   +3 more
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Hepatic disease in injection drug users

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2002
A wide variety of infectious diseases affect injection drug users. One of the most common is viral hepatitis. In the United States, hepatitis B affects 1.5 million people, and hepatitis C affects more than 4 million people, many of whom are past or current users of injected drugs.
Brent D, Lemberg, Thomas A, Shaw-Stiffel
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An unusual infection in an injecting drug user

Scottish Medical Journal, 2011
Injecting drug users are prone to atypical infections. We present a case of septic thrombophlebitis secondary to Fusobacterium gonidiaformans infection in a heroin user, which demonstrates the frequently unusual nature of pathogens and presentations in this group of patients.
K, Gillis, J P, Seenan, A, Cahill, A, Tyers, N, Khanna, G F S, Edwards, M A, Diggle   +6 more
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