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Explanations for sharing injection equipment in injecting drug users and barriers to safer drug use
Addiction, 1994AbstractWe examined the explanations given by a sample of 1245 injecting drug users in Sydney, Australia for accepting used injection equipment. Factor analysis of these reasons revealed three dimensions of sharing: not caring when withdrawing or intoxicated, unavailability of equipment, and not seeing it as high risk or ease of injecting.
M W, Ross, A, Wodak, A, Stowe, J, Gold
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HIV treatment, injection drug use, and illicit drug policies
The Lancet, 2007The global over-reliance on criminal justice approaches to illicit drug use is putting the lives of injection drug users (IDUs) at risk. This policy approach severely undermines HIV-prevention efforts and the effects may be even worse for HIV-infected IDUs because criminal justice strategies interfere with IDUs ability to access and remain successfully
Evan, Wood +2 more
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Transition to Injection Drug Use: The Role of Initiators
AIDS and Behavior, 2014Data are limited about the role of initiators in the transition to injection drug use. We examined the prevalence and predictors of giving someone their first injection using baseline data from a study involving 98 injection drug users (IDUs) in Toronto, Canada. Participants were recruited in 2011 using respondent-driven sampling.
Nooshin Khobzi, Rotondi +6 more
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Radiologic study of injection drug use complications
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2002The complications of injection drug use (IDU) can lead to a wide variety of clinical problems that range from complications localized to the injection site to more disseminated disease. The radiologic workup of these problems uses multiple modalities, depending on the location and type of problem to be investigated.
Anthony L, Alcantara +2 more
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Use of liposomes as injectable-drug delivery systems
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1989The formation of liposomes and their application as delivery systems for injectable drugs are described. Liposomes are microscopic vesicles composed of one or more lipid membranes surrounding discrete aqueous compartments. These vesicles can encapsulate water-soluble drugs in their aqueous spaces and lipid-soluble drugs within the membrane itself ...
M J, Ostro, P R, Cullis
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Injecting drug use continues in older drug users too
BMJ, 2017Rao and Roche note that the number of people aged over 50 who have substance misuse problems is rising globally across a range of settings.1 This rise also applies to people who inject drugs, at least in the developed world.2 Australian surveillance data from 2016 indicate a large, ageing cohort of (predominantly) opioid injectors.3 Similarly ...
Peter, Higgs, Paul, Dietze
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HIV and injection drug use in Latin America
AIDS, 2002This paper presents HIV/AIDS-related data on injection drug use (IDU) and drug use trends in Latin America, and policy issues and strategies developed to face the HIV epidemic.Serosurveillance data on HIV/AIDS and IDU in Latin America were compiled. Key experts were consulted in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
Carlos Magis, Rodríguez +2 more
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The epidemics of injecting drug use and HIV in Asia
AIDS, 2001This paper reviews recent data on the twin epidemics of IDU and of HIV infection in the Asian region. Included in this review are the countries in South Southeast and East Asia ranging from Iran in the West to Indonesia and Japan in the East. The newly independent Central Asian republics are not included in this review as they have been included in a ...
P D, Ghys +4 more
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Abstract Injecting drug use carries with it a significant risk of harms, including overdose and its attendant morbidity and mortality, contracting blood-borne virus infections and other local and systemic infections (including bacterial and fungal ones), and thromboembolism, and psychosocial sequelae including marginalization and ...
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