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Auteur R. HEIMER
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R. HEIMER ; L. E. GRAU ; E. CURTIN ; K. KHOSHNOOD ; M. SINGER | 2007
Dans American Journal of Public Health (Vol.97 n°1, 2007) Article : PériodiqueOBJECTIVES: We sought to determine the extent of HIV testing among urban injection drug users (IDUs) to assess whether an expansion of targeted testing programs would be consistent with national goals to identify previously undetected infections[...]
ENGLISH : Bleaching of syringes has been advocated to prevent HIV-1 transmission among injection drug users (IDUs). Bleach is frequently distributed by needle exchange, outreach, and educational programs targeting IDUs. We applied a sensitive [...]
ENGLISH : Aims Home-made preparation of heroin is common in countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU), and the addition of blood during its preparation and the use of contaminated syringes to distribute it may play a role in the rapid spread [...]
R. HEIMER | 1998
Dans Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (Vol.15, n°3, May-June 1998) Article : PériodiqueFRANÇAIS : Le programme d'échange de seringues (PES) de New Haven a été autorisé en 1990. En 1992, un coordinateur des demandes de traitement lui était ajouté. Cet article analyse les données recueillies par le coordinateur de 1992 à 1994. Il a[...]
T. C. GREEN ; L. E. GRAU ; H. W. CARVER ; M. KINZLY ; R. HEIMER | 2011
Dans Drug and Alcohol Dependence (Vol.115, n°3, June 2011) Article : PériodiqueBACKGROUND: The leading cause of injury death among adults in Connecticut (CT), USA is drug poisonings. We analyzed the epidemiology and geographic distribution of opioid-involved accidental drug-involved intoxication deaths ("overdoses") in CT [...]
R. HEIMER ; E. WHITE | 2010
Dans Drug and Alcohol Dependence (Vol.109, n°1-3, June 2010) Article : PériodiqueThe conjoined epidemics of HIV and injection drug abuse have progressed rapidly in many parts of the Russian Federation, including the City of St. Petersburg, which now has more cases of HIV than any other region in the country. Official estimat[...]
FRANÇAIS : Les auteurs ont analysé le rôle d'un programme légal d'échange de seringues dans la réduction de l'épidémie de VIH-1 parmi des usagers de drogues par voie intraveineuse, à travers l'étude des retours de seringues dans le cadre du pro[...]
R. HEIMER ; S. CLAIR ; L. E. GRAU ; R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; P. A. MARSHALL ; M. SINGER | 2002
PériodiqueFRANÇAIS : 492 usagers de drogues injectables des banlieues de Chicago, Hartford et Oakland, fréquentant ou non un programme d'échange de seringues, ont été interrogés sur leur pratiques d'injection et leurs connaissances sur le VIH et les hépa[...]
ENGLISH : In response to recent concerns about risk of HIV-1 transmission from drug injection paraphernalia such as cookers, ethnographic methods were used to develop a descriptive typology of the paraphernalia and practices used to prepare an[...]
FRANÇAIS : Cet article développe une méthode statistique pour estimer le taux d'infection au VIH parmi des usagers participant à un échange de seringues, sans avoir recours à des informations auto-rapportées. Les données sont recueillies en sui[...]
S. G. SHERMAN ; GANN D. S. ; G. SCOTT ; CARLBERG S. ; D. BIGG ; R. HEIMER | 2008
Dans Harm Reduction Journal (Vol.5 n°2, 2008) Article : PériodiqueENGLISH : BACKGROUND: Opioid overdose is a leading cause of death among injection drug users. Over half of injection drug users report at least one nonfatal overdose during their lifetime. Death from opioid overdose rarely occurs instantaneous[...]
R. HEIMER ; M. BINKA ; S. KOESTER ; J. P. C. GRUND ; A. PATEL ; E. PAINTSIL ; B. D. LINDENBACH | 2018
Dans Journal of Infectious Diseases (Vol.217, n°3, January 2018) Article : PériodiqueBackground: Controlling hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission among people who inject drugs (PWID) has focused on preventing sharing syringes and drug preparation paraphernalia, but it is unclear whether HCV incidence linked to sharing parapherna[...]
S. KOESTER ; R. HEIMER ; A. E. BARON ; J. GLANTZ ; TENG W. | 2003
Dans American Journal of Epidemiology (Vol.157, n°4, February 2003) Article : PériodiqueRecently published articles, including one appearing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, have reported that sharing of syringes by injection drug users is not strongly associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission. Instead, these art[...]
ENGLISH : Effective prevention of syringe-borne transmission of HIV and the hepatitis viruses can be undermined if contact between injection drug users and the staff of prevention programs is impeded by police harassment, limited program resou[...]
