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Auteur L. D. WENGER |
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Article : Périodique
H. E. TOOKES ; A. H. KRAL ; L. D. WENGER ; G. A. CARDENAS ; A. N. MARTINEZ ; R. L. SHERMAN ; M. PEREYRA ; D. W. FORREST ; M. LALOTA ; L. R. METSCH |Background: The United States (U.S.) approved use of federal funds for needle and syringe programs (NSPs) in December 2009. This study compares syringe disposal practices in a U.S. city with NSPs to a U.S. city without NSPs by examining the prev[...]![]()
Périodique
L. D. WENGER ; M. ROSENBAUM | 1994FRANÇAIS : L'accès au traitement sur demande n'est pas très aisé aux Etats-Unis. De multiples éléments y font obstacle, notamment les listes d'attente. 70 héroïnomanes ont été interrogés à ce sujet et détaillent les façons de se débrouiller pou[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
A. M. LOPEZ ; P. BOURGOIS ; L. D. WENGER ; J. LORVICK ; A. N. MARTINEZ ; A. H. KRAL |Research with injection drug users (IDUs) benefits from interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological innovation because drug use is illegal, socially sanctioned and often hidden. Despite the increasing visibility of interdisciplinary, mixed [...]![]()
Article : Périodique
Background: Research has shown that people often need assistance from an established person who injects drugs (PWID) in order to initiate their own injection drug use. Yet, there is scant research on the injection initiation process from the per[...]Nouveauté
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Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: The US is in the midst of a national Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) epidemic that appears to be driven by new cases among people who inject drugs (PWID). While HCV transmission among PWID is believed to occur mostly through direct sharing o[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
L. D. WENGER ; A. M. LOPEZ ; M. COMFORT ; A. H. KRAL |Background: Dominant public health and medical discourse has relied on a pharmacocentric conception of heroin use - that is, the notion that heroin users inject compulsively to stave off physical and psychological withdrawal. Previous research d[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: Government-sanctioned Safer Injection Facilities (SIFs) have been implemented around the world to address public health and public order concerns associated with injection drug use. The goal of this study was to investigate how commu[...]![]()
Périodique
L. D. MOORE ; L. D. WENGER | 1995FRANÇAIS : L'article décrit le rôle actif que les usagers de drogues jouent en installant l'un des plus efficaces programmes d'échange de seringues aux USA : Le Point Prévention à San Francisco. Ils analysent aussi quelques uns des obstacles pe[...]