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Background: Binge drug use has been associated with increased risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and other serious health-related harms among adult drug user populations. This study sought to determine the prevalence and correl[...]
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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[...]
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J. S. MELO ; R. S. GARFEIN ; K. HAYASHI ; M. J. MILLOY ; K. DEBECK ; S. SUN ; S. JAIN ; S. A. STRATHDEE ; D. WERB |Background: The prevention of drug injecting is often cited as a justification for the deployment of law enforcement and for the continuation of drug criminalization policies. We sought to characterize the impact of law enforcement interactions [...]
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S. YOUNG ; E. WOOD ; M. J. MILLOY ; K. DEBECK ; S. DOBRER ; E. NOSOVA ; T. KERR ; K. HAYASHI |Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) have high rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Little is known about the rates of diagnosis and treatment for HCV among PWID. Therefore, this study aims to characterize the cascade of care in Van[...]
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K. DEBECK ; T. CHENG ; J. S. MONTANER ; C. BEYRER ; R. ELLIOTT ; S. SHERMAN ; E. WOOD ; S. BARAL |ENGLISH: Background: Mounting evidence suggests that laws and policies prohibiting illegal drug use could have a central role in shaping health outcomes among people who inject drugs (PWID). To date, no systematic review has characterised the i[...]
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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 [...]
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L. WANG ; D. PANAGIOTOGLOU ; J. E. MIN ; K. DEBECK ; M. J. MILLOY ; T. KERR ; K. HAYASHI ; B. NOSYK |Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) face barriers to healthcare due to reasons including comorbidity. We evaluated access to health and social services by three of the most prevalent comorbid conditions among PWID: HIV, hepatitis C (HCV),[...]
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H. REDDON ; J. HO ; K. DEBECK ; M. J. MILLOY ; Y. LIU ; H. DONG ; K. AHAMAD ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; K. HAYASHI |Background and aim: Although methadone, an opioid agonist, has been an effective medication used to treat opioid use disorder for over 40 years, recent studies have found that methadone was identified in more than a quarter of prescription opioi[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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A. MAH ; M. W. HULL ; K. DEBECK ; M. J. MILLOY ; S. DOBRER ; E. NOSOVA ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; K. HAYASHI |Background: Knowledge of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is believed to be important in altering risk behaviour, improving engagement in care, and promoting willingness to initiate HCV treatment. We assessed factors associated with HCV knowledge and tre[...]Nouveauté
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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[...]
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J. KLIMAS ; W. Y. MOK ; S. LAKE ; M. E. SOCIAS ; K. DEBECK ; K. HAYASHI ; E. WOOD ; M. J. MILLOY |Background: While preliminary evidence has begun to document intentional use of one substance to reduce the use of another, the phenomenon of drug substitution among people who use illicit opioids remains understudied. Therefore, we sought to es[...]
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H. REDDON ; D. FAST ; K. DEBECK ; D. WERB ; K. HAYASHI ; E. WOOD ; M. J. MILLOY |Background: The illicit selling and use of cannabis is prevalent among marginalized people who use illicit drugs (PWUD). Given that participation in illicit drug markets has been previously associated with a range of health and social harms, we [...]
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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[...]
