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Auteur A. H. KRAL |
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Article : Périodique
A. H. KRAL ; L. WENGER ; L. CARPENTER ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; P. BOURGOIS |OBJECTIVE: Research has shown that safer injection facilities (SIFs) are successful at reducing public nuisance and enhancing public health. Since 2007 support for implementation of a SIF in San Francisco has been building. The objective of this[...]Article : Périodique
S. G. ARREOLA ; R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; L. WENGER ; D. CHU ; J. THING ; A. H. KRAL |BACKGROUND: Studies report that among people who inject drugs (PWID), approximately 1 in 7 initiated injection during their thirties or later (referred to hereafter as "late initiates"). However, little is known about individuals who are late in[...]Article : Périodique
Research examining the demographic and substance use characteristics of illicit drug use in the United States has typically failed to consider differences in routes of administration or has exclusively focused on a single route of administration[...]Article : Périodique
A. H. KRAL ; M. MALEKINEJAD ; J. VAUDREY ; A. N. MARTINEZ ; J. LORVICK ; W. McFARLAND ; H. F. RAYMOND |The objective of this article is to compare demographic characteristics, risk behaviors, and service utilization among injection drug users (IDUs) recruited from two separate studies in San Francisco in 2005, one which used targeted sampling (TS[...]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[...]Article : Périodique
Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) have been shown to reduce infection, prevent overdose deaths, and increase treatment uptake. The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, yet no sanctioned SIF currently operates in the United S[...]Périodique
R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; A. H. KRAL ; ERRINGER E. A. ; B. R. EDLIN | 1999FRANÇAIS : Les lois sur le matériel d'injection, appliquées dans 47 Etats américains, interdisent aux usagers de drogues par voie injectable (UDIs) de posséder des seringues. Il a été suggéré que ces lois ont pour conséquence une augmentation d[...]Article : Périodique
R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; L. WENGER ; D. CHU ; B. QUINN ; J. THING ; A. H. KRAL |Aims: Most people who inject drugs (PWID) were first initiated into injection by a current PWID. Few studies have examined PWID who assist others into drug injection. Our goal is to describe the prevalence of and risk factors for initiating some[...]Article : Périodique
V. J. ROSE ; A. LUTNICK ; A. H. KRAL |In addition to syringe exchange programs, pharmacies are important venues where injection drug users (IDUs) can access non-prescription syringes and other prevention interventions. This study assessed the feasibility of providing a range of inte[...]Périodique
A. H. KRAL ; J. LORVICK ; R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; WATTERS J. K. | 1997FRANÇAIS : L'objectif de cette étude était d'analyser les risques de contamination au VIH des femmes usagers de drogue par voie intraveineuse (UDVIs) et des usagers de crack cocaïne (UCC) qui ont des rapports sexuels avec d'autres femmes. Les f[...]Périodique
R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; A. H. KRAL ; J. LORVICK ; WATTERS J.K. | 1997FRANÇAIS : Les lois sur les matériels d'injection et leur prescription rendent les PES illégaux dans la plupart des Etats des Etats Unis. Néanmoins 25 Etats et le District de Columbia en ont lancé depuis septembre 1995. Dans quelques Etats comm[...]Article : Périodique
S. E. LANKENAU ; K. D. WAGNER ; K. SILVA ; A. KECOJEVIC ; E. IVERSON ; M. McNEELY ; A. H. KRAL |In response to the growing public health problem of drug overdose, community-based organizations have initiated overdose prevention programs (OPPs), which distribute naloxone, an opioid antagonist, and teach overdose response techniques. Injecti[...]Article : Périodique
While there have been numerous papers published in the medical, social, and epidemiologic literature about the effectiveness of syringe exchange programs (SEPs), few papers identify operational characteristics of the SEPs they study or assess wh[...]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
FRANÇAIS : La couverture est une dimension importante lorsque l'on veut mesurer l'efficacité des programmes de distribution d'aiguilles et de seringues à fournir du matériel d'injection stérile aux consommateurs de drogues par injection. L'Orga[...]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[...]NouveautéArticle : 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
K. H. SEAL ; A. H. KRAL ; L. GEE ; L. D. MOORE ; R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; J. LORVICK ; B. R. EDLIN |Objectives. This study sought to determine prevalence of and risk factors for nonfatal recent overdose among street-recruited injection heroin users. Methods. From August 1998 through July 1999, 1427 heroin injectors were recruited from 6 inner-[...]Article : Périodique
Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; G. KOLLA ; C. STRIKE ; A. H. KRAL ; A. UUSKULA ; D. DES JARLAIS |Just over 10 years have passed since public health experts called for an update to the "infection risk reduction hierarchy". At the time Vlahov et al. noted that HIV prevention programs for people who inject drugs (PWID), 13% of whom are estimat[...]Article : Périodique
Injection drug initiation usually requires assistance by someone who already injects drugs. To develop interventions that prevent people from starting to inject drugs, it is imperative to understand why people who inject drugs (PWID) assist with[...]Périodique
A. H. KRAL ; R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; ERRINGER E. A. ; J. LORVICK ; B. R. EDLIN | 1999FRANÇAIS : But : évaluer les facteurs de risque associés aux usagers de drogue par injection (UDI) qui font à ou se font faire des injections par d'autres UDI. Type d'étude et lieu : les UDI ont été recrutés dans une étude croisée utilisant des[...]Article : Périodique
H. FRASER ; J. ZIBBELL ; T. HOERGER ; S. HARIRI ; C. VELLOZZI ; N. K. MARTIN ; A. H. KRAL ; M. HICKMAN ; J. W. WARD ; P. VICKERMAN |Background and aims: Effective strategies are needed to address dramatic increases in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) in rural settings of the United States. We determined the required scale-up of HCV treat[...]Périodique
J. LORVICK ; R. N. BLUTHENTHAL ; A. SCOTT ; M. L. GILBERT ; RIEHMAN K. S. ; R. L. ANDERSON ; N. M. FLYNN ; A. H. KRAL | 2006ENGLISH : This article describes the secondary syringe exchange (SSE) practices of injection drug users (IDUs) attending 23 syringe exchange programs (SEPs) in the state of California during 2002 (n = 539). The sample was primarily heroin inje[...]Périodique
A. H. KRAL ; J. LORVICK ; B. R. EDLIN | 2000FRANÇAIS : Lobjectif de cette étude est de comparer les conduites à risque liées au sexe et à linjection en fonction de lâge chez des usagers de drogues injectable (UDI). Les UDI ont été recrutés dans des structures de proximités de deux quarti[...]