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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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Transitions from first drug use to illicit opioid and injection drug use in a multisite rural U.S. cohort of people who use drugs [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Aim To understand circumstances surrounding transitions between initial drug use, non-prescribed opioid use, and injection drug use (IDU) among people who use non-prescribed opioids in the rural U.S.
Rob J. Fredericksen, Adams Sibley, Kathryn E. Lancaster, Wiley Jenkins, L. Sarah Mixson, Bridget M. Whitney, Lawrence Ouellet, Peter D. Friedmann, Todd Korthuis, Joseph A.C. Delaney, Judith I. Tsui, Heidi M. Crane, William Zule, April M. Young, David W. Seal, Thomas J. Stopka   +15 more
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Botulism due to Injection Drug Use. [PDF]

J Educ Teach Emerg Med, 2023
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Hoffman T, Yee J.
europepmc   +5 more sources

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
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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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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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Injecting drug use, the skin and vasculature [PDF]

Addiction, 2020
ABSTRACTDamage to the skin, subcutaneous tissues and blood vessels are among the most common health harms related to injecting drug use. From a limited range of early reports of injecting‐related skin and soft tissue damage there is now an increasing literature relating to new drugs, new contaminants and problems associated with unsafe injection ...
Roy Robertson, Barbara Broers, Magdalena Harris   +2 more
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