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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2023 Background In May 2022, Health Canada approved a three-year exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act decriminalizing possession of certain illegal substances for personal use among adults in the province of British Columbia.
Farihah Ali +5 more
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The Ethics of “Smart Drugs”: Moral Judgments About Healthy People's Use of Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs [PDF]
, 2012 What moral concerns are relevant when judging the use of cognitive-enhancing (CE) drugs by healthy people? University students evaluated competitive fairness, distributive fairness, peer pressure, naturalness, and dosage form.
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018 Background Although HIV prevalence in Cambodia has declined to 0.6% among the general population, the prevalence remains high among female sex workers (14.0%) and men who have sex with men (2.3%).
Heng Sopheab +3 more
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People who use drugs and the right to health
Harm Reduction JournalSupport for a human rights framework for drug policy has been growing for some years. This year, the UNODC published a chapter in the World Drug Report focussed on the right to health. In this paper, we draw attention to the conceptualisation of the right to health for people who use drugs.
Ritter, A, Barrett, L
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Managing tuberculosis in people who use and inject illicit drugs
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2013 People who use and inject illicit drugs are at high risk of contracting tuberculosis, whether or not they are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Studies conducted before and after the emergence of HIV infection show that, when compared with the general population, people who use illicit drugs have a higher risk not just of getting ...
Haileyesus Getahun +2 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background Methadone therapy clinics have been recently introduced in Tanzania, aiming at reducing risk behaviors and infection rates of viral hepatitis and HIV among people who use drugs.
Semvua B. Kilonzo +9 more
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Injecting equipment access and use in a sample of Australians who regularly inject drugs, 2022. [PDF]
, 2023 People who inject drugs (PWID) have an increased risk of contracting blood-borne viruses (BBV) and injection-related health problems. Needle and equipment sharing is still a common occurrence among PWID in Australia, despite high coverage of ...
Agramunt, Seraina +1 more
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Frontiers in Reproductive HealthThe world is not on track to reach the majority of the UNAIDS 2025 targets, and people who inject drugs (PWID) continue to be left behind, hindered by counterproductive law enforcement practices, punitive laws, economic distress, and social stigma and ...
Lirica Nishimoto +6 more
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The use of alprazolam by people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia
Drug and Alcohol Review, 2011 AbstractIntroduction and Aims. In Australia, people who inject drugs (PWID) commonly report the use of benzodiazepines (BZDs). This paper explores the emerging use of alprazolam among PWID in Melbourne, Australia.Design and Methods. This study reports on 3 years of data collected through the Victorian Illicit Drug Reporting System (2008–2010 ...
Horyniak, Danielle +3 more
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How patterns of injecting drug use evolve in a cohort of people who inject drugs [PDF]
, 2015 This research found an overall movement away from street based drug purchasing and drug use, towards more activity in private settings, which has important implications for the harms experienced by people who inject drugs.
Alison Ritter +3 more
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