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High risk behaviors of injection drug users registered with harm reduction programme in Karachi, Pakistan
Harm Reduction Journal - - 2007
Surveillance data of Sindh AIDS Control Programme, Pakistan suggest that HIV infection is rapidly increasing among IDUs in Karachi and has reached 9% in 2004–5 indicating that the country has progressed from nascent to concentrated level of HIV epidemic. Findings of 2nd generation surveillance in 2004–5 also indicate 104/395 (26.3%) IDUs HIV positive in the city. We conducted a cross sectional stu...... hiện toàn bộ
The motives and methods of methamphetamine and ‘heroin’ co-use in West Virginia
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 20 - Trang 1-9 - 2023
Opioid and methamphetamine co-use is increasing across the USA with overdoses involving these drugs also rising. West Virginia (WV) has led the US in opioid overdose death rates since at least 2013 and rising co-use of methamphetamine with opioids has played a greater role in deaths over the last 5 years. This study used rapid ethnography to examine methods and motivations behind opioids and metha...... hiện toàn bộ
“You can’t chain a dog to a porch”: a multisite qualitative analysis of youth narratives of parental approaches to substance use
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 16 - Trang 1-10 - 2019
Reducing harms of youth substance use is a global priority, with parents identified as a key target for efforts to mitigate these harms. Much of the research informing parental responses to youth substance use are grounded in abstinence and critiqued as ineffective and unresponsive to youth contexts. Parental provision of substances, particularly alcohol, is a widely used approach, which some pare...... hiện toàn bộ
Safety and feasibility of intranasal heroin-assisted treatment: 4-week preliminary findings from a Swiss multicentre observational study
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 20 - Trang 1-8 - 2023
Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) is effective for individuals with severe opioid use disorder (OUD) who do not respond sufficiently to other opioid agonist treatments. It is mostly offered with injectable diacetylmorphine (DAM) or DAM tablets creating a barrier for individuals who need the rapid onset of action but are either unable or unwilling to inject, or primarily snort opioids. To explore ano...... hiện toàn bộ
Needle acquisition patterns, network risk and social capital among rural PWID in Puerto Rico
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 14 Số 1 - 2017
Cross-sectional assessments of participants’ characteristics and loss to follow-up in the first Opioid Substitution Therapy Pilot Program in Kabul, Afghanistan
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 12 - Trang 1-6 - 2015
Kabul has over 12,000 people who inject drugs (PWID), most of them heroin users, and opioid substitution therapy has recently been introduced as an effective method to reduce opioid use. We aimed to evaluate a pilot Opioid Substitution Therapy Pilot Program (OSTPP) in Kabul, Afghanistan, particularly to (1) describe characteristics of the participants enrolled in the program and (2) identify facto...... hiện toàn bộ
Evaluation of the Deadly Liver Mob program: insights for roll-out and scale-up of a pilot program to engage Aboriginal Australians in hepatitis C and sexual health education, screening, and care
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 15 - Trang 1-12 - 2018
Deadly Liver Mob (DLM) is a peer-driven, incentivised health promotion program aimed at increasing understanding of hepatitis C, promoting harm reduction in relation to injecting drug use, and linking participants to screening for hepatitis C, other blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections among Aboriginal people in Western Sydney, NSW. This paper presents the evaluation of a pilo...... hiện toàn bộ
Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 5 - Trang 1-6 - 2008
Nearly 400 years after Galileo Galilei of Florence was arraigned and convicted of suspected heresy by the ten member Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition), the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) is similarly inserting itself into matters pertaining to innovations in healthcare and the public health response to addiction throughout the world. Like that earlier Inquisition of 1633 t...... hiện toàn bộ
Peer-assisted injection as a harm reduction measure in a supervised consumption service: a qualitative study of client experiences
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 18 - Trang 1-11 - 2021
Peer assistance is an emerging area of study in injection drug use. When Canada’s first supervised consumption site (SCS) opened in 2003 in Vancouver, Canada, clients were prohibited from injecting their peers; only recently has this practise been introduced as a harm reduction measure at these sites. In 2018, Health Canada granted federal exemption to allow peer-assisted injection at certain SCS ...... hiện toàn bộ
Potential effects of using non-combustible tobacco and nicotine products during pregnancy: a systematic reviewAbstract
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The range of risk reduced alternatives to smoking tobacco is increasing and so is use among pregnant women. The substantial harms of smoking during pregnancy are well established and there is reason to believe that nicotine alone is somewhat harmful. Differences in the exposure c... ... hiện toàn bộ
Harm Reduction Journal - Tập 17 Số 1 - 2020
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