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Auteur N. ARRUDA |
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E. ROY ; N. ARRUDA ; E. VAILLANCOURT ; J. F. BOIVIN ; C. MORISSETTE ; P. LECLERC ; M. ALARY ; P. BOURGOIS |Introduction and Aims. A study was undertaken to verify reports of an increasing presence of crack in downtown Montreal, and to investigate the influence of crack availability on current drug use patterns among street-based cocaine users. Desi[...]![]()
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E. ROY ; N. ARRUDA ; P. LECLERC ; C. MORISSETTE ; C. BLANCHETTE ; K. BLOUIN ; M. ALARY |Background: Until the early 2000s, people who inject drugs (PWID) in Québec had mainly been injecting powder cocaine and heroin. Since then, ethnographic studies have shown that the drug market has diversified, with crack and prescription opioid[...]![]()
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P. LECLERC ; A. C. VANDAL ; A. FALL ; J. BRUNEAU ; E. ROY ; S. BRISSETTE ; C. P. ARCHIBALD ; N. ARRUDA ; C. MORISSETTE |Background: To plan and implement services to persons who inject drugs (PWID), knowing their number is essential. For the island of Montréal, Canada, the only estimate, of 11,700 PWID, was obtained in 1996 through a capture-recapture method. Thi[...]![]()
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R. MOTTA-OCHOA ; K. BERTRAND ; N. ARRUDA ; D. JUTRAS-ASWAD ; E. ROY |Background: Cocaine abuse is a major public health issue due to its role in the HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics in North America. A significant area of concern among people who use cocaine (PWUC), injected or smoked, is their frequent [...]Nouveauté
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E. ROY ; N. ARRUDA ; P. LECLERC ; N. HALEY ; J. BRUNEAU ; J. F. BOIVIN |Background: Preparing drugs or medications for injection may leave residues in containers and filters used by injection drug users (IDUs). Little is known about the specific practice of injecting someone else's drug residue as a possible route o[...]![]()
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E. ROY ; I. RICHER ; N. ARRUDA ; J. VANDERMEERSCHEN ; J. BRUNEAU |BACKGROUND: Effective public health programs aimed at problematic cocaine users are challenged by the fact that they can have complex patterns of drug use with respect to polysubstance use and routes of drug administration. This study was carrie[...]![]()
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E. ROY ; P. LECLERC ; C. MORISSETTE ; N. ARRUDA ; C. BLANCHETTE ; K. BLOUIN ; M. ALARY |Background: Little is known about crack injection and its temporal trends in North America. This article describes the extent of crack injection and examines temporal trends among injection drug users (IDUs) recruited from 2003 to 2010 in the Su[...]![]()
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J. BRUNEAU ; N. ARRUDA ; G. ZANG ; D. JUTRAS-ASWAD ; E. ROY |AIMS: To examine temporal trends in prescription opioid (PO) injection and to assess its association with hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroconversion among people who inject drugs (PWID). DESIGN: Prospective cohort study spanning 2004 to 2016. SET[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
Starting in 2007, a 2-year study based on ethnographic methodology was carried out downtown Montreal, Canada. A thematic analysis of observational and interview-based notes was conducted. Illicit prescription opioid (PO) use was widespread among[...]