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Factors associated with willingness to wear an electronic overdose detection device

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2019
Background North America is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Although take-home naloxone and other measures have been an effective strategy to reduce overdoses, many events are unwitnessed and mortality remains high amongst those using drugs ...
Keith Ahamad, Huiru Dong, Cheyenne Johnson, Kanna Hyashi, Kora DeBeck, M. J. Milloy, Evan Wood   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

When it comes to assessing the impact of e-cigarettes, estimates of device prevalence matter: the BIDI Stick disposable device

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background While e-cigarettes have been identified as an effective means of tobacco harm reduction, the degree to which these devices will realise their harm reduction potential will be determined in large part by how available these products are to ...
Neil McKeganey, Andrea Patton, Venus Marza, Gabriel Barnard   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of Alcohol Consumption and Hazardous Drinking, Tobacco and Drug use in urban Tanzania, and Their associated Risk Factors. [PDF]

, 2009
Evidence suggests substance abuse in Tanzania is a growing public health problem. A random sample of 899 adults aged 15-59 in two urban sites of differing levels of poverty surveyed alcohol, tobacco and illicit substance use.
Araya, Bethany White, Breeze, Brugha, Brugha, Chagas Silva, Chande, Davis, Ezzati, Farrell, Flisher, Grant, Green, Gureje, Jenkins, Jenkins, Joseph Mbatia, Kilonzo, Kilonzo, Kitange, Kitange, Lewis, Lima, Lynskey, McCurdy, Meltzer, Meltzer, Mitsunaga, Mswia, Ngoma, Nicola Singleton, Nikander, Parry, Parry, Patel, Rachel Jenkins, Rahim, Rehm, Rijken, Room, Saunders, Shayo, Singleton, Timpson, Unwin, van Oers, Wickramasinghe, Wolff   +47 more
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Is expected substance type associated with timing of drug checking service utilization?: A cross-sectional study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Drug checking is a harm reduction intervention aiming to reduce substance use-related risks by improving drug user knowledge of the composition of unregulated drugs.
Tara Beaulieu, Evan Wood, Samuel Tobias, Mark Lysyshyn, Priya Patel, Jennifer Matthews, Lianping Ti   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Internalizing Symptoms, Peer Substance Use, and Substance Use Initiation [PDF]

Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2015
This study used longitudinal survey and social network data covering sixth through ninth grades to test whether internalizing symptoms make early adolescents more prone to (1) exposure to and (2) influence by substance‐using peers. Random effects regressions revealed that increases in symptoms were significantly associated with increases in the ...
Sonja E. Siennick, Alex O. Widdowson, Mathew K. Woessner, Mark E. Feinberg   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Women’s multiple uses of an overdose prevention technology to mitigate risks and harms within a supportive housing environment: a qualitative study

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background North America is amidst an opioid overdose epidemic. In many settings, particularly Canada, the majority of overdose deaths occur indoors and impact structurally vulnerable people who use drugs alone, making targeted housing-based ...
Geoff Bardwell, Taylor Fleming, Ryan McNeil, Jade Boyd   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detecting a signal in the noise : Monitoring the global spread of novel psychoactive substances using media and other open source information [PDF]

, 2015
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no ...
Canadian Community Epidemiology Network On Drug Use, Center for Substance Abuse Research, European Monitoring Centre For Drugs And Drug Addiction, Sumnall H   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Community partner perspectives on the implementation of a novel safer supply program in Canada: a qualitative study of the MySafe Project

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background The adulteration of the illicit drug supply with fentanyl and its analogues is driving the ongoing overdose crisis in North America. While various harm reduction interventions address overdose-related risks, there is growing interest in safer ...
Manal Mansoor, Annie Foreman-Mackey, Andrew Ivsins, Geoff Bardwell   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stress, Coping, and Context: Examining Substance Use Among LGBTQ Young Adults With Probable Substance Use Disorders.

Psychiatric Services, 2020
OBJECTIVE The authors qualitatively examined how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) young adults with probable substance use disorders conceptualized their substance use vis-à-vis their LGBTQ identities. METHODS Individual, in-depth,
Jennifer K. Felner, J. Wisdom, T. Williams, L. Katuska, S. Haley, Hee-Jin Jun, Heather L. Corliss   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Police seizure of drugs without arrest among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, before provincial ‘decriminalization’ of simple possession: a cohort study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Several jurisdictions in Canada have recently considered decriminalizing possession of illicit drugs for personal use (henceforth, simple possession) as part of their responses to the ongoing drug toxicity/overdose crisis.
Kanna Hayashi, Tyson Singh Kelsall, Caitlin Shane, Zishan Cui, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, M.-J. Milloy, Kora DeBeck, Thomas Kerr   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source