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Auteur J. MONTANER |
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STOLTZ J. A. ; E. WOOD ; W. SMALL ; K. LI ; M. TYNDALL ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR | 2007ENGLISH : Injection drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to serious health complications resulting from unsafe injection practices. We examined whether the use of a supervised safer injection facility (SIF) promoted change in injecting practices a[...]Article : Périodique
Introduction and Aims: Crack pipe sharing is a risky practice that has been associated with the transmission of hepatitis C and other harms. While previous research has exclusively focused on this phenomenon among adults, this study examines cra[...]Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: Crack pipe sharing can increase health risks among people who use drugs, yet the reasons for sharing these pipes have not been well described. Therefore, we sought to identify the prevalence and correlates of crack pipe sharing among[...]Article : Périodique
Violence is amongst the primary concerns of communities around the world and research has demonstrated links between violence and the illicit drug trade, particularly in urban settings. Given the growing emphasis on evidence-based policy-making,[...]Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; B. NOSYK ; T. KERR ; B. FISCHER ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Background: British Columbia (BC), Canada, is home to a large illegal cannabis industry that is known to contribute to substantial organized crime concerns. Although debates have emerged regarding the potential benefits of a legally regulated ma[...]Article : Périodique
L. TI ; J. BUXTON ; E. WOOD ; K. SHANNON ; R. ZHANG ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |Introduction and Aims. Crack cocaine pipe sharing is associated with various health-related harms, including hepatitis C transmission. Although difficulty accessing crack pipes has been found to predict pipe sharing, little is known about the fa[...]Périodique
A. PALEPU ; B. YIP ; C. MILLER ; S. A. STRATHDEE ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; J. MONTANER ; R. S. HOGG | 2001FRANÇAIS : Aucune différence n'est observée en fonction de l'âge, du sexe, d'un passé d'usage de drogues, de la numération en CD4, du diagnostic de sida, de l'observance, ou de l'expérience du médecin. Les participants à l'étude ayant un passé [...]Article : Périodique
T. KERR ; STOLTZ J. A. ; M. TYNDALL ; K. LI ; R. ZHANG ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Problem: Illicit use of injected drugs is linked with high rates of HIV infection and fatal overdose, as well as community concerns about public drug use. Supervised injecting facilities have been proposed as a potential solution, but fears have[...]Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: Preventing injection drug use among vulnerable youth is critical for reducing serious drug-related harms. Addiction treatment is one evidence-based intervention to decrease problematic substance use; however, youth frequently report [...]Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; T. KERR ; L. BIRD ; R. ZHANG ; D. MARSH ; M. TYNDALL ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Background Vancouver, Canada has a pilot supervised injecting facility (SIF), where individuals can inject pre-obtained drugs under the supervision of medical staff. There has been concern that the program may facilitate ongoing drug use and del[...]Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; E. WOOD ; J. QI ; E. FU ; D. McARTHUR ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |Background: Income generation opportunities available to people who use illicit drugs have been associated with street disorder. Among a cohort of injection drug users (IDU) we sought to examine street-based income generation practices and willi[...]Périodique
BRAITSTEIN P. ; T. KENDALL ; K. CHAN ; E. WOOD ; J. MONTANER ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; R. S. HOGG | 2001Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; E. WOOD ; H. DONG ; S. DOBRER ; K. HAYASHI ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |The rapid increase of non-medical prescription opioid (PO) use among youth has been described as the most alarming drug use trend in North America (Compton and Volkow, 2006, McCabe et al., 2008 and Okie, 2010). After cannabis, youth consistently[...]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
BACKGROUND: The health risks of crack cocaine smoking in public settings have not been well described. We sought to identify factors associated with public crack smoking, and assess the potential for a supervised inhalation facility to reduce en[...]Article : Périodique
T. KERR ; M. TYNDALL ; K. LI ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Safer injection facilities provide medical supervision for illicit drug injections. We aimed to examine factors associated with syringe sharing in a community-recruited cohort of illicit injection drug users in a setting where such a facility ha[...]Périodique
K. DEBECK ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; B. FISCHER ; J. BUXTON ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2009FRANÇAIS : Cette étude menée par un centre britanno-colombien de recherche sur le sida, souligne le lien existant entre consommation de crack et transmission du VIH. Ces conclusions n'expliquent toutefois pas les raisons de ce fort taux de cont[...]Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; E. WOOD ; J. QI ; E. FU ; D. McARTHUR ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |BACKGROUND: Limited attention has been given to the potential role that the structure of housing available to people who are entrenched in street-based drug scenes may play in influencing the amount of time injection drug users (IDU) spend on pu[...]Périodique
K. DEBECK ; E. WOOD ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR | 2006FRANÇAIS : L'article développe une étude critique des dépenses et des activités liées à la stratégie canadienne anti-drogue renouvelée en 2003, évaluant son efficacité à la lumière des données scientifiques actuelles dans le domaine de la réduc[...]Périodique
T. KERR ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2008ENGLISH : The spread of infectious diseases and overdoses among injection drug users remain major public-health challenges globally. In response to these concerns, an increasing number of countries have implemented supervised injection facilit[...]Article : Périodique
G. R. WALTON ; K. HAYASHI ; P. BACH ; H. DONG ; T. KERR ; K. AHAMAD ; M. J. MILLOY ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |OBJECTIVE: Illicit drug use is a well-established risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality. However, little is known about the impact of benzodiazepine use on mortality among populations of polysubstance users. This study aimed to ident[...]Article : Périodique
S. NOLAN ; V. DIAS LIMA ; N. FAIRBAIRN ; T. KERR ; J. MONTANER ; J. GREBELY ; E. WOOD |Aims: To determine the relationship between methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) and hepatitis C (HCV) seroconversion among illicit drug users. Design: A generalized estimating equation model assuming a binomial distribution and a logit-link fu[...]Article : Périodique
Krusi A ; E. WOOD ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has dramatically improved health outcomes among people living with HIV/AIDS. However, significant rates of HIV-related morbidity and mortality have persisted among HIV-positive injection drug users (I[...]Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; T. KERR ; B. NOSYK ; S. STRATHDEE ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |FRANÇAIS : Un groupe de chercheurs états-uniens et canadiens ont étudié les données fournies par sept programmes gouvernementaux de surveillance du marché des drogues illicites. Leur conclusion est sans appel : la lutte internationale menée con[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; D. WERB ; M. KAZATCHKINE ; T. KERR ; HANKINS C. ; R. GORNA ; D. NUTT ; D. C. DES JARLAIS ; F. BARRE-SINOUSSI ; J. MONTANER |There remain crucial areas in public health in which the gap between evidence and public policy persists, and there are few more striking than in the global response to illicit drugs. In the USA, for example, annual federal budgets for drug-law[...]