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Background. 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[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: 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[...]Article : Périodique
R. KING ; S. M. BIRD ; A. OVERSTALL ; G. HAY ; S. J. HUTCHINSON |Injecting 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[...]Article : Périodique
Aim: 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[...]Article : Périodique
J. STRANG ; W. HALL ; M. HICKMAN ; S. M. BIRD |Objective. 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[...]Article : Périodique
R. KING ; S. M. BIRD ; A. OVERSTALL ; G. HAY ; S. J. HUTCHINSON |Using 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[...]Article : Périodique
A 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[...]Périodique
S. M. BIRD ; S. J. HUTCHINSON | 2003FRANÇAIS : 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[...]Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: 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[...]Article : Périodique
R. KING ; S. M. BIRD ; S. P. BROOKS ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; G. HAY |The 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[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: 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[...]Périodique
S. M. BIRD ; E. L. C. MERRALL | 2009ENGLISH : 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[...]Article : Périodique
M. ROTILY ; C. WEILANDT ; S. M. BIRD ; K. KALL ; H. J. VAN HAASTRECHT ; E. IANDOLO ; S. ROUSSEAU |BACKGROUND: 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[...]Article : Périodique
J. STRANG ; S. M. BIRD ; P. DIETZE ; G. GERRA ; A. T. McLELLAN |A 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[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: Scotland was the first country to adopt take-home naloxone (THN) as a funded public health policy. We summarise the background and rigorous set-up for before/after monitoring to assess the impact on high-risk opiate-fatalities. Methods: [...]
