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Drug abuse: Uncovering the burden in rural Punjab
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2017 Introduction: Drug abuse is a global phenomenon, affecting almost every country, but its extent and characteristics differ from region to region. India too is caught in this vicious circle of drug abuse, and the numbers of drug addicts are increasing day
Bhuwan Sharma +4 more
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Infections with Spore-forming Bacteria in Persons Who Inject Drugs, 2000–2009
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013 Since 2000 in the United Kingdom, infections caused by spore-forming bacteria have been associated with increasing illness and death among persons who inject drugs (PWID).
Norah E. Palmateer +8 more
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The bridge between classical and ‘synthetic’/chemical psychoses: towards a clinical, psychopathological and therapeutic perspective [PDF]
, 2019 © 2019 Orsolini, Chiappini, Papanti, De Berardis, Corkery and Schifano. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Chiappini, Stephania +5 more
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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
Goldberg, David +5 more
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JK Science, 2023 We hereby report a first case of substance abuse, where regular insulin by intravenous route has been misused to augment the cocaine abuse to derive sedation, euphoria, and a state of semi-consciousness leading to medication error in the form of ...
Vishal R. Tandon +3 more
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Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2019 Introduction: Management of pseudoaneurysms in intravenous drug users is complex and challenging due to an associated infection and unavailability of autologous vein grafts.
Lokesh Shekher Jaiswal +2 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2019 Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is increasingly prevalent among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the context of the current US opioid crisis.
Ellen Childs +8 more
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Identifying and preventing health problems among young drug-misusing offenders [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the health problems and treatment needs of drug-misusing offenders and to draw out the implications of the findings for health education and prevention.
Judith Aldridge +2 more
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SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY AMONG INJECTABLE DRUG USERS IN KATHMANDU VALLEY
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003 On the background of ever increasing HIV transmission in our community through various routes, the psychosocial factors related with intravenous drug abuse has become necessary to be studied.
Saroj Prasad Ojha +5 more
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Increasing Capacity to Detect Clusters of Rapid HIV Transmission in Varied Populations—United States
Viruses, 2021 Molecular cluster detection analyzes HIV sequences to identify rapid HIV transmission and inform public health responses. We describe changes in the capability to detect molecular clusters and in geographic variation in transmission dynamics. We examined
Alexandra M. Oster +12 more
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