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This paper provides a brief overview of qualitative drug testing procedures using urine, hair, saliva and sweat specimens. Issues related to collection, analysis and interpretation of each specimen as well as their advantages and disadvantages a[...]![]()
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R. P. MATTICK ; C. BREEN ; J. KIMBER ; M. DAVOLI |Contexte: La méthadone est largement utilisée pour remplacer la consommation d'opiacés illicites, tels que l'héroïne, en traitement d'entretien dans les programmes de prise en charge médicale de la substitution aux opiacés. Deux autres médicamen[...]![]()
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J. KIMBER ; K. DOLAN ; I. VAN BEEK ; D. HEDRICH ; H. ZURHOLD |The topic of drug consumption facilities or rooms (DCRs) was reviewed by Dolan, Kimber and others in Harm Reduction Digest 10, published in the September 2000 issue of DAR. As one of the first English language papers on the topic this paper has [...]![]()
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K. DOLAN ; J. KIMBER ; C. FRY ; J. FITZGERALD ; D. McDONALD ; F. TRAUTMANN |Rooms set aside for the consumption of illicit drugs have been referred to as drug consumption facilities, or rooms, health rooms or injecting rooms in Europe. Terms used in the Australian context include medically supervised injecting centres [...]![]()
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L. DEGENHARDT ; N. GISEV ; J. TREVENA ; S. LARNEY ; J. KIMBER ; L. BURNS ; M. SHANAHAN ; D. WEATHERBURN |Aims: Studies of offending among people who use drugs typically focus upon small and potentially unrepresentative samples. We examined an entire population of opioid-dependent clients' contact with the criminal justice system to develop more acc[...]![]()
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S. LARNEY ; M. HICKMAN ; R. GUY ; J. GREBELY ; G. J. DORE ; R. T. GRAY ; C. A. DAY ; J. KIMBER ; L. DEGENHARDT |Background: Injecting drug use is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Estimates of the size of the population of people who inject drugs are critical to inform service planning and estimate disease burden due to injecting drug [...]![]()
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N. E. PALMATEER ; J. KIMBER ; M. HICKMAN ; S. HUTCHINSON ; T. RHODES ; D. GOLDBERG |AIMS: To review the evidence on the effectiveness of harm reduction interventions involving the provision of sterile injecting equipment in the prevention of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission among injec[...]![]()
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L. DEGENHARDT ; S. LARNEY ; J. KIMBER ; M. FARRELL ; W. HALL |Introduction and Aims: To estimate the number of deaths that would have occurred among patients receiving oral naltrexone for opioid use under the Special Access Scheme if these patients had received methadone. Design and Methods: We analysed [...]![]()
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V. HOPE ; J. KIMBER ; P. VICKERMAN ; M. HICKMAN ; F. NCUBE |BACKGROUND: Injection site infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) have been associated with serious morbidity and health service costs in North America. This study explores the frequency, factors and costs associated with injection site in[...]![]()
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J. KIMBER ; K. DOLAN ; A. WODAK | Sydney : NDARC (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre) | Technical Reports | 2001Supervised injecting centres (SICs) enable the consumption of pre-obtained drugs under hygienic and lower risk conditions. The main objectives are reducing the health and public order problems associated with injecting drug use. With little info[...]![]()
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G. J. MACARTHUR ; E. VAN VELZEN ; N. E. PALMATEER ; J. KIMBER ; A. PHARRIS ; V. HOPE ; A. TAYLOR ; K. ROY ; E. ASPINALL ; D. GOLDBERG ; T. RHODES ; D. HEDRICH ; M. SALMINEN ; M. HICKMAN ; S. J. HUTCHINSON |BACKGROUND: Injecting drug use is a major risk factor for the acquisition and transmission of HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Prevention of these infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) is critical to reduce ongoing transmission, morbid[...]![]()
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R. P. MATTICK ; C. BREEN ; J. KIMBER ; M. DAVOLI |Background: Methadone maintenance was the first widely used opioid replacement therapy to treat heroin dependence, and it remains the best-researched treatment for this problem. Despite the widespread use of methadone in maintenance treatment fo[...]![]()
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S. LARNEY ; N. GISEV ; M. FARRELL ; T. A. DOBBINS ; L. BURNS ; A. GIBSON ; J. KIMBER ; L. DEGENHARDT |Objectives: To describe deaths in prison among opioid-dependent people, and examine associations between receipt of opioid substitution therapy (OST) and risk of death in prison. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Adult prisons in Ne[...]![]()
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T. RHODES ; J. KIMBER ; W. SMALL ; J. FITZGERALD ; T. KERR ; M. HICKMAN ; G. HOLLOWAY | 2006Background: One key structural dimension in the distribution of drug-related harm associated with injecting drug use is the injecting environment. Epidemiological evidence associates elevated blood-borne viral risk with injecting in 'public' and[...]![]()
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H. H. THEIN ; J. KIMBER ; L. MAHER ; M. MACDONALD ; J. M. KALDOR | 2005Objective:To describe public opinion towards supervised injecting centres (SICs) and the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) before and after the opening of the MSIC. Methods: In 2000 and 2002, telephone interviews were conducted[...]