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Lived Experience Matters: Automatic Detection of Stigma on Social Media Toward People Who Use Substances [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Stigma toward people who use substances (PWUS) is a leading barrier to seeking treatment.Further, those in treatment are more likely to drop out if they experience higher levels of stigmatization. While related concepts of hate speech and toxicity, including those targeted toward vulnerable populations, have been the focus of automatic content ...
arxiv
Injecting drugs alone during an overdose crisis in Vancouver, Canada
Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Background Settings throughout Canada and the USA continue to experience crises of overdose death due to the toxic unregulated drug supply. Injecting drugs alone limits the potential for intervention and has accounted for a significant proportion of ...
Alexa Norton +5 more
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2019 BackgroundDespite ongoing efforts aimed to improve treatment engagement for people with substance-related disorders, evidence shows modest rates of utilization as well as client-perceived barriers to care.
Kirsten Marchand +7 more
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Dendritic cells steering antigen and leukocyte traffic in lymph nodes
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Dendritic cells are key players in the activation of T cells and their commitment to effector function. In this In a Nutshell Review, we will discuss how dendritic cells guide the trafficking of antigen and leukocytes in the lymph node, thus influencing T‐cell activation processes. Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in initiating and shaping the
Enrico Dotta +3 more
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Denial of prescription pain medication among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Harm Reduction JournalBackground People who use drugs experience pain at two to three times the rate of the general population and yet continue to face substantial barriers to accessing appropriate and adequate treatment for pain.
Evelyne Marie Piret +6 more
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Doing community-based research during dual public health emergencies (COVID and overdose)
Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Meaningful engagement and partnerships with people who use drugs are essential to conducting research that is relevant and impactful in supporting desired outcomes of drug consumption as well as reducing drug-related harms of overdose and COVID-19 ...
Phoenix Beck McGreevy +16 more
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Many-levelled continuation ratio models for frequency of alcohol and drug use data [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Studies of alcohol and drug use are often interested in the number of days that people use the substance of interest over an interval, such as 28 days before a survey date. Although count models are often used for this purpose, they are not strictly appropriate for this type of data because the response variable is bounded above.
arxiv
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In vivo IL‐10 produced by tissue‐resident tolDC is involved in maintaining/inducing tolerance. Depending on the agent used for ex vivo tolDC generation, cells acquire common features but prime T cells towards anergy, FOXP3+ Tregs, or Tr1 cells according to the levels of IL‐10 produced. Ex vivo‐induced tolDC were administered to patients to re‐establish/
Konstantina Morali +3 more
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Bioactive Substance Use of Leaf Extract of Piper Caninum Blume Pressing for Blas Disease and Increase Production in Rice [PDF]
, 2018 The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of bioactive substances in the leaf extract of Piper caninum against rice blast disease caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryzae. This study was conducted in a greenhouse, using a completely randomized
Suriani, N. L. (Ni)
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Use of withdrawal management services among people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2018 Background For many individuals with substance use disorders, the entry point for addiction treatment can be through withdrawal management (e.g. detoxification) services.
Sharon Vipler +6 more
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