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Auteur S. M. BIRD
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S. M. BIRD ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; D. J. GOLDBERG | 2003
Dans Lancet (The) (Vol.362, n°9388, Sept 20, 2003) Article : PériodiqueBackground. In 2000 and 2001, there were 292 and 332 drug-related deaths in Scotland, respectively. Of the 332 people who died in 2001, 65 were of female sex, 80 were younger than 25 years, and 112 were older than 34 yaers. We assessed the effec[...]
S. M. BIRD ; A. McAULEY ; S. PERRY ; C. HUNTER | 2016
Dans Addiction (Vol.111, n°5, May 2016) Article : PériodiqueAims: To assess the effectiveness for Scotland's National Naloxone Programme (NNP) by comparison between 2006-10 (before) and 2011-13 (after NNP started in January 2011) and to assess cost-effectiveness. Design: This was a pre-post evaluation o[...]
R. KING ; S. M. BIRD ; A. OVERSTALL ; G. HAY ; S. J. HUTCHINSON | 2014
Dans Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A-Statistics in Society (Vol.177, n°1, January 2014) Article : PériodiqueInjecting drug users (IDUs) have a direct social and economic effect yet can typically be regarded as a hidden population within a community. We estimate the size of the IDU population across the nine different Government Office regions of Engla[...]
S. M. BIRD ; C. M. FISCHBACHER ; L. GRAHAM ; A. FRASER | 2015
Dans Addiction (Vol.110, n°10, October 2015) Article : PériodiqueAim: To assess whether the introduction of a prison-based opioid substitution therapy (OST) policy was associated with a reduction in drug-related deaths (DRD) within 14 days after prison release. Design: Linkage of Scotland's prisoner database[...]
J. STRANG ; W. HALL ; M. HICKMAN ; S. M. BIRD | 2010
Dans British Medical Journal (Vol.341, n°7774, 25 September 2010) Article : PériodiqueObjective. To evaluate the impact of introduction of supervision of methadone dosing on deaths related to overdose of methadone in Scotland and England between 1993 and 2008 while controlling for increased prescribing of methadone. Design. Anal[...]
S. A. McDONALD ; A. McAULEY ; M. HICKMAN ; S. M. BIRD ; A. WEIR ; K. TEMPLETON ; R. GUNSON ; S. J. HUTCHINSON | 2021
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.96, October 2021) Article : PériodiqueBackground: In Europe, North America, and Australia, mortality due to drug-related (DR) causes amongst people who inject drugs (PWID) is a major issue. Our objective was to characterise temporal trends in DR mortality rates in a large cohort of [...]
R. KING ; S. M. BIRD ; A. OVERSTALL ; G. HAY ; S. J. HUTCHINSON | 2013
Dans Addiction Research and Theory (Vol.21, n°3, June 2013) Article : PériodiqueUsing Bayesian capture-recapture analysis, we estimated the number of current injecting drug users (IDUs) in Scotland in 2006 from the cross-counts of 5670 IDUs listed on four data-sources: social enquiry reports (901 IDUs listed), hospital reco[...]
S. M. BIRD ; M. ROTILY | 2002
Dans Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (The) (Vol.41, n°2, May 2002) Article : PériodiqueA resume, with key European results, is given of Willing Anonymous Salivary HIV/Hepatitis C (WASH-C) surveillance studies for estimating HIV and Hepatitis C prevalence among prisoners, and associated risk behaviours. The WASH methodology was acc[...]
FRANÇAIS : 19 486 notations des registres de sortie issues du Scottish Prisoner Information Network, d'hommes incarcérés de juillet 1996 à décembre 1999 pendant 15 jours au moins ont été étudiés afin de vérifier que le taux de décès lié aux dro[...]
E. L. C. MERRALL ; S. M. BIRD ; S. J. HUTCHINSON | 2012
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.23, n°1, January 2012) Article : PériodiqueBACKGROUND: We examine major causes of death amongst persons in contact with drug-treatment services across Scotland during April 1996-March 2006, hereafter Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) cohort. METHODS: Drug-treatment records were link[...]
R. KING ; S. M. BIRD ; S. P. BROOKS ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; G. HAY | 2005
Dans American Journal of Epidemiology (Vol.162, n°7, October 1, 2005) Article : PériodiqueThe authors present findings from a Bayesian analysis of Scotland's four primary capture-recapture data sources for 2000 that was carried out to estimate numbers of current injecting drug users by region (Greater Glasgow vs. elsewhere in Scotlan[...]
E. L. C. MERRALL ; S. M. BIRD ; S. J. HUTCHINSON | 2013
Dans Addiction (Vol.108, n°2, February 2013) Article : PériodiqueAims: To investigate the relationship between time after hospital discharge and drug-related death (DRD) and suicide among drug users in Scotland, while controlling for potential confounders. Design: Cohort study. Setting and participants: T[...]
ENGLISH : The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has announced that drug-treatment courts work. Evaluations from three continents consistently showed that drugs courts effectively reduce recidivism and underlying addiction problems of drug-abusing o[...]
M. ROTILY ; C. WEILANDT ; S. M. BIRD ; K. KALL ; H. J. VAN HAASTRECHT ; E. IANDOLO ; S. ROUSSEAU | 2001
Dans European Journal of Public Health (Vol.11, n°3, September 2001) Article : PériodiqueBACKGROUND: In order to demonstrate the feasibility of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and related risk behaviour surveillance in European prisons, a multicentre pilot study was undertaken. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was car[...]![Take-home emergency naloxone to prevent deaths from heroin overdose [Editorial]](https://bdoc.ofdt.fr/thumbnail.php?type=1&id=76106)
J. STRANG ; S. M. BIRD ; P. DIETZE ; G. GERRA ; A. T. McLELLAN | 2014
Dans British Medical Journal (Vol.349, n°7982, 8 November 2014) Article : PériodiqueA paradigm shift is occurring in the treatment of heroin overdose. On 5 November the World Health Organization launched guidelines on the community management of heroin and opioid overdose and emergency administration of naloxone by people who a[...]
