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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[...]
Périodique
Devant la perpétuelle crise de santé qui sévit parmi les utilisateurs de drogue par injection (UDI) de Vancouver (Canada), plusieurs appels à l'introduction de lieux sécuritaires pour l'injection (LSl) ont été lancés depuis le début des années 1[...]
Périodique
E. WOOD ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; M. W. TYNDALL ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; R. S. HOGG | 2000FRANÇAIS : Deux scénarios ont été modélisés pour prédire, de 1999 à 2006, l'impact de l'infection VIH et l'utilisation d'antirétroviraux sur la mortalité et l'espérance de vie de la population du Downtown Eastside de Vancouver, Canada. Dans le [...]
Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; M. W. TYNDALL ; R. ZHANG ; STOLTZ J. A. ; C. LAI ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; T. KERR |In September 2003, the first safer injecting facility in North America opened in Vancouver, Canada. Here, injection-drug users can inject preobtained illicit drugs under medical supervision. A concern regarding such facilities is that they may l[...]
Article : Périodique
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[...]
Périodique
C. L. MILLER ; T. KERR ; FRANKISH J. C. ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; E. WOOD | 2006ENGLISH : Several studies have highlighted risk factors that cause HIV vulnerability among injection drug users (IDUs); these studies in turn have prompted public health officials to take action to minimize these risks. We sought to evaluate t[...]
Périodique
C. L. MILLER ; T. KERR ; FRANKISH J. C. ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; E. WOOD | 2006ENGLISH : Several studies have highlighted risk factors that cause HIV vulnerability among injection drug users (IDUs); these studies in turn have prompted public health officials to take action to minimize these risks. We sought to evaluate t[...]
Périodique
E. WOOD ; STOLTZ J. A. ; K. LI ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; T. KERR | 2006ENGLISH : Aims Previous studies have largely attributed the Australian heroin shortage to increases in local law enforcement efforts. Because western Canada receives heroin from similar source nations, but has not measurably increased enforcem[...]
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STOLTZ J. A. ; E. WOOD ; W. SMALL ; K. LI ; M. TYNDALL ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR | 2007ENGLISH : Injection drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to serious health complications resulting from unsafe injection practices. We examined whether the use of a supervised safer injection facility (SIF) promoted change in injecting practices a[...]
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E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; W. SMALL ; K. LI ; D. C. MARSH ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. W. TYNDALL | 2004Background: North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility for illicit injection drug users was opened in Vancouver on Sept. 22, 2003. Although similar facilities exist in a number of European cities and in Sydney, Australia[...]
Article : Périodique
T. KERR ; W. SMALL ; C. JOHNSTON ; K. LI ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |ENGLISH : So-called balanced drug policy couples enforcement initiatives targeting drug dealers with health-focused interventions serving addicted individuals. There are few evaluations of this approach, and little is known about how these two[...]
Article : Périodique
T. KERR ; M. W. TYNDALL ; R. ZHANG ; C. LAI ; J. S. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |ENGLISH : There have been concerns that safer injecting facilities may promote initiation into injection drug use. We examined length of injecting career and circumstances surrounding initiation into injection drug use among 1065 users of Nort[...]
Article : Périodique
S. E. HADLAND ; B. D. MARSHALL ; T. KERR ; R. ZHANG ; J. S. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Among 559 street youth recruited between 2005 and 2007 in Vancouver, Canada, young drug users ( =21 years) with regard to recent drug use and sexual practices using multiple logistic regression. Older youth were more likely to be male and of Ab[...]
Article : Périodique
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[...]
Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: Crack pipe sharing can increase health risks among people who use drugs, yet the reasons for sharing these pipes have not been well described. Therefore, we sought to identify the prevalence and correlates of crack pipe sharing among[...]
