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Developing Spanish Language Intervention Content to Address Health Disparities among People Who Use Drugs, and Other Hard-To-Reach Populations. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Urban Health
Aronson ID   +8 more
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Role of the media in promoting the dehumanization of people who use drugs

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2023
Dehumanization, the perception or treatment of people as subhuman, has been recognized as "endemic" in medicine and contributes to the stigmatization of people who use illegal drugs, in particular. As a result of dehumanization, people who use drugs are subject to systematically biased policies, long-lasting stigma, and suboptimal healthcare. One major
Daniel Roy Sadek Habib   +2 more
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People who use drugs, HIV, and human rights

The Lancet, 2010
We reviewed evidence from more than 900 studies and reports on the link between human rights abuses experienced by people who use drugs and vulnerability to HIV infection and access to services. Published work documents widespread abuses of human rights, which increase vulnerability to HIV infection and negatively affect delivery of HIV programmes ...
Ralf, Jürgens   +4 more
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Harm Reduction Strategies for People Who Use Drugs

JAMA
This JAMA Insights explores harm reduction strategies for people who use drugs and the clinicians who treat them to help reduce the risk of unintentional drug overdose and infection.
Ruchi V, Shah   +2 more
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Pathways of drug use among people who inject drugs

2021
This dissertation studies the contributing factors to illicit drug use behaviors by using a longitudinal, developmental perspective of drug use over the drug use career. The three component studies rely on the same data and similar methods to examine the contributions of drug type, individual, and contextual factors on multiple drug use outcomes among ...
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Xylazine informational flyer for people who use drugs

2021
In February 2021, the North Carolina Survivors Union and the Opioid Data Lab detected a substance called xylazine alongside heroin, fentanyl, and some sugars (a common filler). Xylazine is a veterinary tranquilizer that causes central nervous system depression.
Figgatt, Mary   +2 more
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Psychological distress among Cambodian people who use drugs

Drug and Alcohol Review, 2019
AbstractIntroduction and AimsPeople who use drugs (PWUD) face several mental health problems. This report aims to examine the prevalence of and factors associated with psychological distress among Cambodian PWUD.Design and MethodsData used in our analysis were from the national survey of 1626 PWUD recruited through respondent‐driven sampling method in ...
Heng Sopheab   +5 more
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Drug checking use and interest among people who inject drugs in Toronto, Canada

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2022
Drug checking services (DCS) provide information on drug composition to inform consumption practices and monitor unregulated drug markets. We sought to identify correlates of recent informal DCS use (e.g., fentanyl test strips) and willingness to use a formal DCS (co-located within a supervised consumption site and employing laboratory-based analyses ...
Indhu Rammohan   +7 more
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Pentazocine use among people who inject drugs in India

Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2015
Data regarding prevalence of Pentazocine use is sparse and intervention strategies aimed at it are meager. In view of the fact that Pentazocine has significant abuse potential contrary to what was earlier thought, along with the actuality that people who use injectable Pentazocine are at risk of various complications as HIV, this domain needs more ...
Aditya Pawar   +2 more
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A Review of Infections in People Who Use Nonprescription Drugs

Canadian Journal of Addiction, 2018
La dépendance accroît le risque d’infection chez une personne par des facteurs directs et indirects. Le risque direct d’infection par injection ou inhalation de substances est bien reconnu. Cependant, les voies indirectes, telles que les effets immunosuppresseurs de certaines drogues et les conditions sociales de la dépendance, peuvent augmenter le ...
Raynell Lang, M. John Gill
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