Association between harm reduction intervention uptake and recent hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs attending sites that provide sterile injecting equipment in Scotland

E. J. ALLEN ; N. E. PALMATEER ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; S. CAMERON ; D. J. GOLDBERG ; A. TAYLOR | 2012
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.23, n°5, September 2012) Article : Périodique

Background: Prevalence of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Scotland is high. The Scottish Government has invested significantly in harm reduction interventions with the goal of reducing HCV transmission among P[...]

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Combination interventions to prevent HCV transmission among people who inject drugs: modeling the impact of antiviral treatment, needle and syringe programs, and opiate substitution therapy

N. K. MARTIN ; M. HICKMAN ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; D. J. GOLDBERG ; P. VICKERMAN | 2013
Dans Clinical Infectious Diseases (Vol.57, Suppl.2, August 2013) Article : Périodique

BACKGROUND: Interventions such as opiate substitution therapy (OST) and high-coverage needle and syringe programs (HCNSP) cannot substantially reduce hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID). HCV antiviral treatmen[...]

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Does informing people who inject drugs of their hepatitis C status influence their injecting behaviour? Analysis of the Networks II study

E. ASPINALL ; A. WEIR ; R. SACKS-DAVIS ; T. SPELMAN ; J. GREBELY ; P. HIGGS ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; M. E. HELLARD | 2014
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.25, n°1, January 2014) Article : Périodique

BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV). It is plausible that PWID who receive a diagnosis of HCV will reduce their injecting risk out of concern for their injecting partners, although evidence for this [...]

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Drug-related deaths by region, sex, and age group per 100 injecting drug users in Scotland, 2000-01

S. M. BIRD ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; D. J. GOLDBERG | 2003
Dans Lancet (The) (Vol.362, n°9388, Sept 20, 2003) Article : Périodique

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[...]

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Emergence of Novel Psychoactive Substance injecting associated with rapid rise in the population prevalence of hepatitis C virus

A. McAULEY ; A. YEUNG ; A. TAYLOR ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; D. J. GOLDBERG ; A. MUNRO | 2019
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.66, April 2019) Article : Périodique

Background: Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) use has increased in recent years and generated significant concern within public health. People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of blood borne viruses, in particular Hepatitis C virus[...]

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Estimating prevalence of injecting drug users and associated heroin-related death rates in England by using regional data and incorporating prior information

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 : Périodique

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[...]

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Estimating the number of people with hepatitis C virus who have ever injected drugs and have yet to be diagnosed: an evidence synthesis approach for Scotland

T. C. PREVOST ; A. M. PRESANIS ; A. TAYLOR ; D. J. GOLDBERG ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; D. DE ANGELIS | 2015
Dans Addiction (Vol.110, n°8, August 2015) Article : Périodique

Aims: To estimate the number of people who have ever injected drugs (defined here as PWID) living in Scotland in 2009 who have been infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and to quantify and characterize the population remaining undiagnosed. [...]

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Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of existing needle and syringe programmes in preventing hepatitis C transmission in people who inject drugs

S. SWEENEY ; Z. WARD ; L. PLATT ; L. GUINNESS ; M. HICKMAN ; V. HOPE ; L. MAHER ; J. IVERSEN ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; J. SMITH ; R. AYRES ; I. HAINEY ; P. VICKERMAN | 2019
Dans Addiction (Vol.114, n°3, March 2019) Article : Périodique

AIM: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) compared with no NSPs on hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in the United Kingdom. DESIGN: Cost-effectiveness analysis from a National Health Service (NHS)/healt[...]

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Examination of the risk of reinfection with hepatitis C among injecting drug users who have been tested in Glasgow

S. A. McDONALD ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; S. O. CAMERON ; H. A. INNES ; A. McLEOD ; D. J. GOLDBERG | 2012
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.23, n°5, September 2012) Article : Périodique

Background: Unsafe injecting practices put injecting drug users (IDUs) at repeat exposure to infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). It has not yet been determined if spontaneously clearing one's primary infection influences the risk of rein[...]

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Expansion of HCV treatment access to people who have injected drugs through effective translation of research into public health policy: Scotland's experience

S. J. HUTCHINSON ; J. F. DILLON ; R. FOX ; S. A. McDONALD ; H. A. INNES ; A. WEIR ; A. McLEOD ; E. J. ASPINALL ; N. E. PALMATEER ; A. TAYLOR ; A. MUNRO ; H. VALERIO ; G. BROWN ; D. J. GOLDBERG | 2015
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.26, n°11, November 2015) Article : Périodique

Seven years have elapsed since the Scottish Government launched its Hepatitis C Action Plan – a Plan to improve services to prevent transmission of infection, particularly among people who inject drugs (PWID), identify those infected and ensure [...]

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Factors associated with injecting risk behaviour among serial community-wide samples of injecting drug users in Glasgow 1990-94: implications for control and prevention of blood-borne viruses

S. J. HUTCHINSON ; A. TAYLOR ; D. J. GOLDBERG ; L. GRUER | 2000
Dans Addiction (Vol.95, n°6, June 2000) Article : Périodique

FRANÇAIS : Buts : examiner l'association entre le partage des aiguilles et des seringues et les caractéristiques démographiques, le comportement d'injection et l'utilisation des centres d'échange des aiguilles et des seringues (A/S). Etude : d[...]

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Global policy and access to new hepatitis C therapies for people who inject drugs

J. S. DOYLE ; E. J. ASPINALL ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; B. QUINN ; C. GORE ; S. Z. WIKTOR ; M. E. HELLARD | 2015
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.26, n°11, November 2015) Article : Périodique

People who inject drugs (PWID) are disproportionately affected by hepatitis C virus (HCV). This review outlines policy recommendations made in the 2014 World Health Organisation (WHO) Guidelines on Screening, Care and Treatment of HCV and their [...]

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High-risk injecting behaviour in hostel accommodation for the homeless in Glasgow 200102: a study combining quantitative and qualitative methodology

S. L. WADD ; S. J. HUTCHINSON ; A. TAYLOR ; S. AHMED ; D. J. GOLDBERG | 2006
Dans Journal of Substance Use (Vol.11 n°5, 2006) Article : Périodique

ENGLISH : Aims: The aim of this study was to determine whether injecting drug users (IDUs) living in hostels for the homeless were more likely to engage in blood-borne virus associated injecting risk behaviour than those living elsewhere. Desi[...]

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Increasing drug-related mortality rates over the last decade in Scotland are not just due to an ageing cohort: A retrospective longitudinal cohort study

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 : Périodique

Background: 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 [...]

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Injecting drug users in Scotland, 2006: Listing, number, demography, and opiate-related death-rates

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 : Périodique

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[...]

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