Non-Injection Drug Use
Legal space for syringe exchange programs in hot spots of injection drug use-related crime
... their drug of choice [35]. Drug paraphernalia charges were also ex- cluded from the hot spot analyses because the MPD dataset did not provide sufficient information in the charge descriptions to determine ...
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Evaluating methamphetamine use and risks of injection initiation among street youth: the ARYS study
... of injection drug use have suggested that close friends introduce the majority of both males and females to injection drug use ...initiating injection ranges from 16 to 18 ...
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When and how do individuals transition from regular drug use to injection drug use in Uganda? Findings from a rapid assessment
... their drug use career with non-injecting forms including chewing, smoking, and sniffing before transitioning to ...regular drug use and first injecting — which took an average of ...
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HIV‑1 protease inhibitor drug resistance in Kenyan antiretroviral treatment‑naive and ‑experienced injection drug users and non‑drug users
... one non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) efevirenz (EFV) or nevirapine (NVP) ...continued use of PIs as effective salvage treatment is hindered by emergence of drug resist- ance, ...
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Social influences upon injection initiation among street-involved youth in Vancouver, Canada: a qualitative study
... young drug users into injection drug ...of drug dependency and contextual factors which limit individual agency ...young drug users into injection, an ethic discouraging IDU from ...
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High HCV seroprevalence and HIV drug use risk behaviors among injection drug users in Pakistan
... to injection-related risk behaviors while working abroad and having greater economic ...was non-existent in our sample, we found no support for this hypothesis in relation to HCV ...
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Inability to access addiction treatment predicts injection initiation among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting
... both injection initiation and being un- able to access addiction ...“hard” drug use defined as use of cocaine, crack, heroin, or crystal methamphetamine (per additional year); gen- der (female ...
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Transmission dynamics for Methicilin resistant Staphalococous areus with injection drug user
... on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) broadens their definition of a risk factor to also include social and mental contributors such as the ideation of a low risk of harm from illicit drug use and ...
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Socio-demographic and sexual practices associated with HIV infection in Kenyan injection and non-injection drug users
... the injection and non-injection drug ...the non-drug ...and use condoms than married women with no education [45, ...
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Factors Associated with the Transition from Drug Abuse to Initiation of Injection Drug Use
... of drug injection among 300 drug injector adolescents and found that 88% of the start of injection takes place for the first time at the recommendation of a friend ...of drug use ...
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A situational picture of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use in Vinnitsya, Ukraine
... of drug use and the demographics of individuals who abuse drugs in this part of the ...Union. Drug abuse appears to start with the use of alcohol and smoking of cannabis among children as ...
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Compulsory drug detention center experiences among a community-based sample of injection drug users in Bangkok, Thailand
... compulsory drug treatment includes prison-like detention and such practices as forced labor ...compulsory drug detention centers in Cambodia, China, Malaysia, and ...treating drug dependence and ...
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Increased risk for hepatitis C associated with solvent use among Canadian Aboriginal injection drug users
... solvent use clusters around Talwin & Rit- alin injection suggests two other interesting areas for future ...tion drug use ...their use of both injection and ...
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Emergency room use after being released from incarceration
... substance use and dependence was higher among prisoners than the general population, particularly among drug using women (Fazel et ...and drug use prior to incarceration have been associated ...
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A socio-structural approach to preventing injection drug use initiation: rationale for the PRIMER study
... avoid drug-related harm [38, 39], including high risky injection practices such as exposing injection-naïve drug users to injecting behaviors ...local drug scene and ...to ...
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Drug use patterns among Thai illicit drug injectors amidst increased police presence
... or use drugs?" Independent variables of interest were defined as dichotomous meas- ures of frequent ...daily) injection use of heroin, Yaba or Ice use ..."crazy drug" and is ...
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Rising rates of injection drug use associated infective endocarditis in Virginia with missed opportunities for addiction treatment referral: a retrospective cohort study
... be non-Hispanic white race and were younger than those without ...with non- IDU-IE ...16.6% non-IDU-IE), however, censored 90-day mortality in those with IDU-IE approached the mortality of the ...
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Injection drug use, unsafe medical injections, and HIV in Africa: a systematic review
... medical injection risks are minimal are not credible, and reflect a pattern of suppressing evi- dence that heterosexual sex explains less than 90% of HIV transmission in Africa ...reportedly non-sexual HIV ...
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Advancing Service Integration in Opioid Treatment Progams for the Care and Treatment of Hepatitis C Infection
... for injection drug use-related opioid dependence, the testing for hepatitis C virus infection status, use of case definition criteria to establish acute hepatitis C virus in- fection following ...
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Socioeconomic factors associated with cessation of injection drug use among street-involved youth
... and drug-use re- lated factors that we hypothesized, based on a review of the prior available literature, might potentially confound the relationship between socioeconomic factors and injec- tion cessation ...
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