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Effect of Needle Exchange Program on Maternal Hepatitis C Virus Prevalence

American Journal of Perinatology, 2020
Objective This study aimed to quantify the prevalence of maternal hepatitis C virus (HCV) before and after implementation of the needle exchange program (NEP) in Scioto County, Ohio. Study Design We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study
R. Rossi, M. Brady, E. Hall, C. Warshak
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Senior Management Perspective on the Policy Debate of Needle and Syringe Exchange Program Provision in Irish Prisons

Journal of correctional health care, 2020
This study examined from an Irish perspective the contentious policy debate about providing clean needles to injecting drug users within prison systems; specifically, it examined the views of six senior managers who were prison health staff and security ...
J. Rosalim
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Analysis of drug residue in needle-exchange syringes in Washington, D.C.

Forensic Science International, 2021
For the first time in Washington, D.C., an analysis of drug residue from used needle-exchange syringes has been performed. This analysis is part of a larger initiative to understand the District of Columbia's illicit drug supply and its intravenous (IV ...
A. Evans, Michael Krause, Samantha Leach, Morgan Levitas, Lucy Nguyen, Luke C Short   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drug Use Stigma and Reprisal: Barriers to Prison Needle Exchange in Canada

The Prison journal
After years of advocacy by a range of civil society groups, supported by scholarly and empirical research, Canada's federal prison service implemented a needle exchange program at select carceral institutions in 2018.
Ann De Shalit, Emily van der Meulen, S. Chu, Rhiannon Thomas   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Political contestation in policy implementation: A narrative inquiry into a needle exchange program

Critical Policy Studies, 2023
Hugh Miller, Ryan Lofaro
exaly  

Vaccination against hepatitis B virus among people who inject drugs - A 20year experience from a Swedish needle exchange program.

Vaccine, 2017
M. Blomé, P. Björkman, L. Flamholc, H. Jacobsson, A. Widell   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Veni, vidi, vici: The appearance and dominance of new psychoactive substances among new participants at the largest needle exchange program in Hungary between 2006 and 2014.

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2016
J. Rácz, Róbert Csák, Krisztina Tóth, Eszter Tóth, K. Rozmán, V. A. Gyarmathy   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A prospective cohort study of risk behaviours, retention and loss to follow-up over 5 years among women and men in a needle exchange program in Stockholm, Sweden

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2021
Martin Kåberg, Torsten Berglund, Anna Mia Ekström   +2 more
exaly  

Changes in injection risk behavior associated with participation in the seattle needle-exchange program

Journal of Urban Health, 2000
Hanne Thiede, H Thiede, H Hagan
exaly  

Views of Iranian prison staff towards needle-exchange program in prison

, 2016
M. Shahbazi, B. Moazen, Farimah Rezaei, M. Shokoohi, Marzieh Farnia, G. Moradi, K. Dolan   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source