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Les stratégies de réduction des risques se sont énormément développées à Dublin depuis 1990. Dans l'étude présentée ici, les auteurs ont tenté de déterminer la prévalence, ainsi que les facteurs associés, de l'hépatite C (VHC), de l[...]
Auteur B. P. SMYTH
17 Documents disponibles écrits par cet auteur
ENGLISH : In Europe, adolescent substance misuse increased during the 1990s. Ireland has among the highest rates of substance misuse among schoolchildren in Europe. We sought to describe the socio-demographic and drug misuse profile of childre[...]
D. MONGAN ; A. M. CAREW ; D. O'NEILL ; S. R. MILLAR ; S. LYONS ; B. GALVIN ; B. P. SMYTH | 2022
Dans European Addiction Research (Vol.28, n°2, March 2022) Article : PériodiqueINTRODUCTION: Given the increased prevalence of cannabis use in Ireland and increase in cannabis potency, this study aimed to estimate the size of the potential population in Ireland that may be in need of cannabis treatment and the percentage o[...]
P. D. JAMES ; C. M. COMISKEY ; B. P. SMYTH | 2019
Dans Journal of Addictions Nursing (Vol.30, n°3, September 2019) Article : PériodiqueBackground: Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in most western countries. In Ireland, it now accounts for most new presentations to substance use treatment services. Cannabis use for most of these people commenced during adolescence[...]
B. P. SMYTH ; A. KELLY ; G. COX | 2011
Dans Alcohol and Alcoholism (Vol.46, n°4, July-August 2011) Article : PériodiqueAIMS: We sought to examine the fall in age of first drinking in Ireland and to determine whether there were gender differences. We also aimed to determine whether there was a relationship between the per capita alcohol consumption evident when p[...]
ENGLISH : We explored the frequency of commencing opiate use by "chasing the dragon" to "come down" off Ecstasy and the stability of heroin smoking in young opiate takers by assessing 102 subjects in Dublin using a semistructured interview. Ni[...]
B. P. SMYTH ; J. BARRY ; E. KEENAN | 2005
Dans International Journal of Epidemiology (Vol.34, n°1, February 2005) Article : PériodiqueBackground: The incidence of hepatitis C (HCV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Dublin is particularly high by international standards. The most robust predictor of an IDU's HCV status is his or her total number of lifetime injecti[...]![Is big money distorting the global drug policy conversation? [Letter to the editor]](https://bdoc.ofdt.fr/img_cache/pmb_ofdt_record_88042.webp?v=1771293680)
The Open Society Foundation (OSF) appears to have a large and distorting influence upon the current global drug policy conversation. The United Nations (UN) Conventions on Narcotic Drugs stand as a massive obstacle for those with drug legalizat[...]
FRANÇAIS : L'hépatite C est particulièrement répandue chez les usagers de drogues par voie injectable (UDVIs). Le contrôle de cette infection pose un défi majeur aux services de réduction des risques. L'éducation de tous UDVIs concernés par l'h[...]
B. P. SMYTH ; J. FAGAN ; K. KERNAN | 2012
Dans Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (Vol.42, n°1, January 2012) Article : PériodiqueBecause the outcome of methadone and buprenorphine substitution treatment in adolescents is unclear, we completed a retrospective cohort study of 100 consecutive heroin-dependent adolescents who sought these treatments over an 8-year recruitment[...]
M. M. BRENNAN ; D. MONGAN ; A. DOYLE ; S. R. MILLAR ; M. CAVALLARO ; L. ZGAGA ; B. P. SMYTH ; E. NIXON ; J. H. IVERS ; B. GALVIN ; C. WALSH ; C. MCCRORY ; N. D. MCCARTHY | 2026
Dans Addiction (Vol.121, n°1, January 2026) Article : PériodiqueBACKGROUND AND AIMS: Alcohol and other drug use is common in early adulthood; however, research on contemporary polysubstance use patterns-defined as use of multiple psychoactive substances-and their associated factors is limited. This study aim[...]
B. P. SMYTH ; J. J. O'CONNOR ; J. BARRY ; E. KEENAN | 2003
Dans Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (Vol.57, n°4, April 2003) Article : PériodiqueUnsafe injecting results in increased rates of hepatitis C and HIV among populations of injecting drug users. It is well established that it is unsafe to use needles or syringes that have previously been used by another injecting drug user.1 The[...]
B. P. SMYTH ; P. JAMES ; W. CULLEN ; C. DARKER | 2015
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.26, n°9, September 2015) Article : PériodiqueHighlights: Problematic use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) fell dramatically after legislation. While some use of NPS persisted, it was greatly reduced after the legal ban. Adolescents who continued to use NPS did so in a lower risk m[...]
FRANÇAIS : Parmi 246 usagers (UDIs) en traitement à Dublin, 173 (70,3%) reconnaissent partager leurs seringues. Les caractéristiques significativement associées à ce comportement sont : des parents au chômage, un abandon précoce de l'école, un[...]
D. BARRY ; H. SYED ; B. P. SMYTH | 2012
Dans Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems (Vol.14, n°3, September 2012) Article : PériodiqueDrug injection carries with it many risks and it is therefore important to understand its origins. We interviewed 104 young opioid users with median age of 22 years. The median age of first opioid use was 16 years, this being heroin chasing in 9[...]
