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Infectious Complications in Injection Drug Use [PDF]

MedEdPORTAL, 2021
Introduction The prevalence of opioid use disorder has increased steadily over the last decade (from 2.2 million in 2010 to 10.2 million in 2018) and with it, a surge in infectious complications associated with injection drug use (IDU).
Ryan Knodle, Lindsay Demers, Rachel Simmons   +2 more
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Botulism due to Injection Drug Use. [PDF]

J Educ Teach Emerg Med, 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 T, Yee J.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Drug Injection to Sites other than Arm: A Study of Iranian heroin injectors [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014
For almost all injecting drug users (IDUs), the first injection is done to the arm. Years after in their injection career, they shift to using other sites for intravenous access.
Mehrdad eKarimi, Hafez eGhaheri, Shervin eAssari, Reza eMoghani Lankarani, Maryam eMoghani Lankarani, Hassan eRafiey, Hooman eNarenjiha, Khodabakhsh eAhmadi, Mahmood eTavakoli, Firoozeh eJafari   +9 more
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Correlates of recent nonfatal overdose among people who inject drugs in West Virginia

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Aim Experiencing a nonfatal overdose (NFOD) is a significant risk factor for a subsequent nonfatal or fatal overdose. Overdose mortality rates in rural Appalachian states are some of the highest in the USA, but little is known about correlates of ...
N. Jia Ahmad, Sean T. Allen, Rebecca Hamilton White, Kristin E. Schneider, Allison O’Rourke, Michelle Perdue, Charles Babcock, Michael E. Kilkenny, Susan G. Sherman   +8 more
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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
openaire   +2 more sources

Another case of cryptococcal meningitis in a person without HIV who injects drugs: A possible risk factor in need of further investigation

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2022
Cryptococcal meningitis is a fungal central nervous infection typically occurring in patients with severe immunocompromise. We present a case of cryptococcal meningitis occurring in a patient with active injection drug use (IDU) but no immunocompromising
L. Madeline McCrary, Ryan Paulus, J. Kyle Melvin, John Perfect, Becky L. White   +4 more
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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]

, 2015
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.
Aceijas, Avril Taylor, Bird, Burns, Day, De Angelis, Doherty, Esposito, Gore, Gore, Gore, Griffiths, Hay, Hickman, Hunt, Hunt, Hunt, Hutchinson, Hutchinson, Hutchinson, Kaplan, Kermode, Kimber, King, Law, Nelson, Overstall, R Development Core Team, Razali, Shah, Sharon J. Hutchinson, Sheila M. Bird, Simon R. White, Surveys, Design and Statistics Subcommittee of Home Office Scientific Advisory Committee, Sweeting, Taylor, Uusküla, Valdez   +37 more
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among HIV-infected patients in Taiwan: prevalence, molecular characteristics and associated factors with nasal carriage

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background To evaluate nasal carriage, antibiotic susceptibility and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), as well as the risk factors of MRSA colonization, in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected ...
Yi-Yu Hsu, David Wu, Chien-Ching Hung, Shie-Shian Huang, Fang-Hsueh Yuan, Ming-Hsun Lee, Ching-Tai Huang, Shian-Sen Shie, Po-Yen Huang, Chien-Chang Yang, Chun-Wen Cheng, Hsieh-Shong Leu, Ting-Shu Wu, Yhu-Chering Huang   +13 more
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Injection Drug Use Endocarditis: An Inner-City Hospital Experience

CJC Open, 2021
Background: There has been a rise in the incidence of injection drug use and associated infective endocarditis. Methods: The clinical outcomes of 39 patients admitted with injection drug use–associated infective endocarditis were collected with a mean ...
Ishba M. Syed, MBBS, Bobby Yanagawa, MD, PhD, Suganthiny Jeyaganth, MSc, Subodh Verma, MD, PhD, Asim N. Cheema, MD, PhD   +4 more
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Lifetime and past-month substance use and injection among street-based female sex workers in Iran

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Street-based female sex workers (FSWs) are highly at risk of HIV and other harms associated with sex work. We assessed the prevalence of non-injection and injection drug use and their associated factors among street-based FSWs in Iran. Methods
Payam Roshanfekr, Mehrdad Khezri, Salah Eddin Karimi, Meroe Vameghi, Delaram Ali, Sina Ahmadi, Elahe Ahounbar, Kambiz Mahzari, Mohsen Roshanpajouh, Mehdi Noroozi, Mostafa Shokoohi, Ali Mirzazadeh   +11 more
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