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Caring for people who inject drugs when they are admitted to hospital [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2021
The number of people who inject drugs in Canada increased from 130 000 in 2011 to 171 900 in 2016.[1][1] Reported hospital admissions for patients with injection-associated infective endocarditis in Ontario increased 5-fold from 34 in 1997 to 176 in 2014.[2][2] Clinicians should use a ...
Brothers, Thomas D., Fraser, John, Webster, Duncan   +2 more
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Strategies used by people who inject drugs to avoid stigma in healthcare settings

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2019
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) have limited engagement in healthcare services and report frequent experiences of stigma and mistreatment when accessing services. This paper explores the impact of stigma against injection drug use on healthcare
Dea Biancarelli, Katie B. Biello, E. Childs, M. Drainoni, Peter Salhaney, Alberto Edeza, M. Mimiaga, R. Saitz, A. Bazzi   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prevalence and correlates of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among people who inject drugs in the San Diego-Tijuana border region

medRxiv, 2021
Background: People who inject drugs may be at elevated SARS-CoV-2 risk due to their living conditions and/or exposures when seeking or using drugs. No study to date has reported upon risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection among people who inject drugs or ...
S. Strathdee, D. Abramovitz, A. Harvey-Vera, C. Vera, G. Rangel, I. Artamonova, A. Chaillon, C. Ignacio, A. Calderon, Natasha K. Martin, T. Patterson   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Another frontier for harm reduction: contraceptive needs of females who inject drugs in Estonia, a cross-sectional study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background Despite increasing contraceptive availability, unintended pregnancy remains a global problem. Developing strategies to reverse this trend and increasing occurrence of withdrawal syndrome among newborn children of females currently injecting ...
Anneli Uusküla, Mait Raag, Sigrid Vorobjov, Don Des Jarlais   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of HCV among people who inject drugs in Brussels—a respondent-driven sampling survey

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background In Belgium, people who inject drugs (PWID) are at a high risk of being infected by hepatitis C (HCV) as injecting drug use is the main mode for transmission of HCV in Europe.
Luk Van Baelen, Els Plettinckx, Jérôme Antoine, Lies Gremeaux   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A single site study to investigate the current prevalence of anti‐hepatitis C virus antibody among substance use disorder patients in Hiroshima—Insufficient testing and diagnosis

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2023
Aims Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among drug users presents an important public health problem; however, little recognition and few approaches to address this issue in Japan.
Ariyuki Kagaya, Yuko Nagaoki, Satomi Shimura, Katsuyoshi Kawana, Kazuaki Chayama   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A descriptive study of hepatitis C in people who inject drugs

Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2023
Background & objectives: The seroprevalence of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in general population is higher than that of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in India. People who inject drugs (PWIDs) constitute a high-risk group for all blood-borne infections.
Shivaprakash, Prakrithi, Patel, Vinit, Shadakshari, Darshan, Verma, Rahul, Shukla, Lekhansh, Mahadevan, Jayant, Kandasamy, Arun, Chand, Prabhat Kumar, Benegal, Vivek, Sethuraman, Lakshmanan, Sharma, Priyamvada, Murthy, Pratima   +11 more
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Prospective Cohort Study of Infective Endocarditis in People Who Inject Drugs.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2021
BACKGROUND Infective endocarditis (IE) in people who inject drugs (PWID) is an emergent public health problem. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate IE in PWID and compare it with IE in non-PWID patients.
J. Pericàs, J. Llopis, E. Athan, M. Hernández-Meneses, M. Hannan, D. Murdoch, Z. Kanafani, T. Freiberger, J. Strahilevitz, N. Fernández-hidalgo, C. Lamas, E. Durante-Mangoni, P. Tattevin, F. Nacinovich, V. Chu, J. Miro   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Long term surgical outcomes for infective endocarditis in people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background In recent years, the number of infective endocarditis (IE) cases associated with injection drug use has increased. Clinical guidelines suggest deferring surgery for IE in people who inject drugs (PWID) due to a concern for worse outcomes in ...
David Goodman-Meza, Robert E. Weiss, Sebastián Gamboa, Abel Gallegos, Alex A. T. Bui, Matthew B. Goetz, Steven Shoptaw, Raphael J. Landovitz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Young people who inject drugs in Mozambique: should we emphasize them in the National Harm Reduction Plan?

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Mozambique has one of the highest burdens of HIV globally, and people who inject drugs (PWID) have one of the highest HIV infection rates in Africa.
Cynthia Semá Baltazar, Makini Boothe, Timothy Kellogg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source