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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[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; J. BRIGHT ; K. HSU ; N. GOEL ; J. W. G. ROSS ; A. HANSON ; R. TEED ; G. POULIN ; B. DENNING ; K. CORACE ; C. CHASE ; K. HALPAPE ; R. LIM ; T. KEALEY ; J. REHM ; Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Guideline Committee |Background: In Canada, low awareness of evidence-based interventions for the clinical management of alcohol use disorder exists among health care providers and people who could benefit from care. To address this gap, the Canadian Research Initia[...]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[...]Périodique
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[...]Périodique
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[...]Périodique
E. WOOD ; P. M. SPITTAL ; W. SMALL ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; R. S. HOGG ; M. W. TYNDALL ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2004Background: Law enforcement is often used in an effort to reduce the social, community and health-related harms of illicit drug use by injection drug users (IDUs). There are, however, few data on the benefits of such enforcement or on the potent[...]Périodique
P. M. SPITTAL ; R. S. HOGG ; K. LI ; CRAIB K. J. ; RECSKY M. ; C. JOHNSTON ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; E. WOOD | 2006The health and social conditions of women living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has recently been the focus of substantial international attention. Since few studies have examined rates and correlates of death among addicted women in Canada, w[...]Article : Périodique
Violence is amongst the primary concerns of communities around the world and research has demonstrated links between violence and the illicit drug trade, particularly in urban settings. Given the growing emphasis on evidence-based policy-making,[...]Article : Périodique
B. FISCHER ; P. BLANKEN ; D. DA SILVEIRA ; A. GALLASSI ; E. M. GOLDNER ; J. REHM ; M. TYNDALL ; E. WOOD |There are an estimated several million crack-cocaine users globally; use is highest in the Americas. Most crack users are socio-economically marginalized (e.g., homeless), and feature elevated risks for morbidity (e.g., blood-borne viruses), mor[...]Article : Périodique
Another serious side effect of the war on drugs. Strategies to tackle the harms of substance misuse and addiction remain among the most controversial areas in public policy. Although new ways of thinking are slowly emerging, the overwhelming mo[...]Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; B. NOSYK ; T. KERR ; B. FISCHER ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Background: British Columbia (BC), Canada, is home to a large illegal cannabis industry that is known to contribute to substantial organized crime concerns. Although debates have emerged regarding the potential benefits of a legally regulated ma[...]Périodique
KUYPER L. M. ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; R. S. HOGG ; M. W. TYNDALL ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2006ENGLISH : We performed analyses of syringe buying and syringe selling among Vancouver injection drug users, recruited from May 1996 and followed up between November 2002 and August 2003, in the context of one of North America's largest syringe[...]Article : Périodique
L. TI ; J. BUXTON ; E. WOOD ; K. SHANNON ; R. ZHANG ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |Introduction and Aims. Crack cocaine pipe sharing is associated with various health-related harms, including hepatitis C transmission. Although difficulty accessing crack pipes has been found to predict pipe sharing, little is known about the fa[...]Article : Périodique
C. L. MILLER ; S. A. STRATHDEE ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; E. WOOD |This study explores factors associated with early adolescent (agedPériodique
E. WOOD ; M. W. TYNDALL ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; R. S. HOGG ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2002ENGLISH : Vancouver has experienced an explosive HIV epidemic despite the presence of a needle exchange programme (NEP). We sought possible explanations for high-risk syringe sharing among Vancouver injection drug users over the period January[...]Article : Périodique
C. L. MILLER ; T. KERR ; S. A. STRATHDEE ; K. LI ; E. WOOD |ENGLISH : BACKGROUND: Young injection drug users (IDUs) may be at increased risk of premature mortality due to the health risks associated with injection drug use including overdoses and infections. However, there has been little research cond[...]Périodique
KUYPER L. M. ; A. PALEPU ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; C. L. MILLER ; P. M. SPITTAL ; R. S. HOGG ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2005ENGLISH : Background: We undertook this study to evaluate the factors associated with sex-trade involvement among a cohort of female injection drug users (IDUs). Methods: We performed a prospective analysis of factors associated with sex-trade[...]Périodique
T. KERR ; E. WOOD ; G. BETTERIDGE ; R. LINES ; R. JÜRGENS | 2004FRANÇAIS : Dans la majeure partie du monde, la première réponse aux problèmes liés à l'injection de drogues a été d'intensifier les efforts de la répression. Cette stratégie a contribué à une augmentation jamais vue de la population carcérale e[...]Article : Périodique
S. YOUNG ; E. WOOD ; M. J. MILLOY ; K. DEBECK ; S. DOBRER ; E. NOSOVA ; T. KERR ; K. HAYASHI |Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) have high rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Little is known about the rates of diagnosis and treatment for HCV among PWID. Therefore, this study aims to characterize the cascade of care in Van[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; R. S. HOGG ; V. D. LIMA ; T. KERR ; B. YIP ; B. D. L. MARSHALL ; J. S. G. MONTANER |CONTEXT: Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is often withheld from injection drug users (IDUs) infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) based on the belief that their unstable lifestyles may predetermine a markedly inferior[...]Article : Périodique
D. C. DES JARLAIS ; K. ARASTEH ; S. SEMAAN ; E. WOOD |PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To describe recent research done primarily during the past 12 months (i.e., primarily in 2008) on the epidemiology of HIV infection among injecting drug users (IDUs). RECENT FINDINGS: Major research developments include a gl[...]Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; T. CHENG ; J. S. MONTANER ; C. BEYRER ; R. ELLIOTT ; S. SHERMAN ; E. WOOD ; S. BARAL |ENGLISH: Background: Mounting evidence suggests that laws and policies prohibiting illegal drug use could have a central role in shaping health outcomes among people who inject drugs (PWID). To date, no systematic review has characterised the i[...]Périodique
ENGLISH : While unprotected sexual intercourse and the use of contaminated injection equipment account for the majority of HIV infections worldwide, other routes of HIV transmission have received less attention. We report on a case of HIV tran[...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Bien que les avantages des centres d’injection supervisés (CIS) sur le plan de la santé publique soient bien documentés, il y a un manque de recherche sur les opinions des utilisateurs de drogues injectables (UDI) concernant le fonct[...]Article : Périodique
C. JOHNSON ; H. DONG ; K. AHAMAD ; K. HAYASHI ; M. J. MILLOY ; T. KERR ; E. WOOD |Introduction: While the impacts of illicit drug use on mortality have been well described, the impact of poly-substance that includes alcohol has received less attention. We examined the impact of binge alcohol use on mortality among a cohort of[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; M. W. TYNDALL ; C. LAI ; J. S. MONTANER ; T. KERR |ENGLISH : North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) recently opened in Vancouver, Canada. One of the concerns prior to the SIF's opening was that the facility might lead to a migration of drug activity and an in[...]Article : Périodique
T. KERR ; STOLTZ J. A. ; M. TYNDALL ; K. LI ; R. ZHANG ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Problem: Illicit use of injected drugs is linked with high rates of HIV infection and fatal overdose, as well as community concerns about public drug use. Supervised injecting facilities have been proposed as a potential solution, but fears have[...]Périodique
E. WOOD ; M. W. TYNDALL ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; A. H. ANIS ; R. S. HOGG ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2003ENGLISH : Background: More than 93% of the nearly $500 million spent annually on Canada's drug strategy goes toward efforts to reduce the illicit drug supply. However, little is known about the effectiveness of this strategy. On Sept. 2, 2000,[...]Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: Preventing injection drug use among vulnerable youth is critical for reducing serious drug-related harms. Addiction treatment is one evidence-based intervention to decrease problematic substance use; however, youth frequently report [...]Article : Périodique
B. NOSYK ; B. D. L. MARSHALL ; B. FISCHER ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR |Background: The nonmedical use of prescribed opioids (POs) has increased across North America over the past decade. Our objective was to identify changes in the availability of POs and other illicit drugs among drug users in a Canadian setting. [...]Article : Périodique
H. REDDON ; J. HO ; K. DEBECK ; M. J. MILLOY ; Y. LIU ; H. DONG ; K. AHAMAD ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; K. HAYASHI |Background and aim: Although methadone, an opioid agonist, has been an effective medication used to treat opioid use disorder for over 40 years, recent studies have found that methadone was identified in more than a quarter of prescription opioi[...]Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; T. KERR ; L. BIRD ; R. ZHANG ; D. MARSH ; M. TYNDALL ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Background Vancouver, Canada has a pilot supervised injecting facility (SIF), where individuals can inject pre-obtained drugs under the supervision of medical staff. There has been concern that the program may facilitate ongoing drug use and del[...]Périodique
W. SMALL ; E. WOOD ; R. JÜRGENS ; T. KERR | 2005ENGLISH : The reliance on law enforcement as the dominant drug policy approach has resulted in record incarceration rates in many countries. Human rights advocates and public health researchers have argued that the risks of HIV transmission re[...]Article : Périodique
W. SMALL ; J. SHOVELLER ; D. MOORE ; M. TYNDALL ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR |North America's first supervised injection facility (SIF) was established in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003. Although evaluation research has documented reductions in risk behavior among SIF users, there has been limited examination of the influence[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Illicit drug markets are a key component of the risk environment surrounding injection drug use. However, relatively few studies have explored how injection drug users' (IDUs) involvement in drug dealing shapes their experiences of d[...]Périodique
PETRAR S. ; T. KERR ; M. W. TYNDALL ; R. ZHANG ; J. S. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2007ENGLISH : BACKGROUND: In recent years, there has been increased interest in supervised safer injecting facilities (SIF) as a strategy to reduce the harms of illicit drug use; however, little work has been done to assess drug users' satisfactio[...]Périodique
M. W. TYNDALL ; S. CURRIE ; P. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; E. WOOD ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2003ENGLISH : Objectives: The explosive and ongoing injecting drug use-related HIV-1 epidemic in Vancouver continues to receive international attention. This study was conducted to determine how patterns of cocaine use influence the risk of HIV in[...]Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; E. WOOD ; J. QI ; E. FU ; D. McARTHUR ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |Background: Income generation opportunities available to people who use illicit drugs have been associated with street disorder. Among a cohort of injection drug users (IDU) we sought to examine street-based income generation practices and willi[...]Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; J. BUXTON ; J. SHOVELLER ; C. RICHARDSON ; G. ROWELL ; E. WOOD |Background: Injection drug use has been identified as a key source of morbidity and mortality, primarily from overdose and the transmission of blood-borne diseases such as HIV. Experts have therefore called for the prioritization of resources to[...]Article : Périodique
A. MAH ; M. W. HULL ; K. DEBECK ; M. J. MILLOY ; S. DOBRER ; E. NOSOVA ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; K. HAYASHI |Background: Knowledge of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is believed to be important in altering risk behaviour, improving engagement in care, and promoting willingness to initiate HCV treatment. We assessed factors associated with HCV knowledge and tre[...]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
E. WOOD ; J. BRIGHT ; K. HSU ; N. GOEL ; J. W. G. ROSS ; A. HANSON ; R. TEED ; G. POULIN ; B. DENNING ; K. CORACE ; C. CHASE ; K. HALPAPE ; R. LIM ; T. KEALEY ; J. REHM ; Comité de rédaction de la Ligne directrice sur le trouble d’utilisation de l'alcool |Contexte: Au Canada, on note que les équipes soignantes et les personnes qui bénéficieraient de soins ciblés connaissent peu les interventions fondées sur des données probantes pour la prise en charge clinique du trouble d'utilisation de l'alcoo[...]Périodique
BRAITSTEIN P. ; T. KENDALL ; K. CHAN ; E. WOOD ; J. MONTANER ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; R. S. HOGG | 2001Article : Périodique
E. HYSHKA ; S. STRATHDEE ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR |During the mid-1990s, Vancouver experienced a well characterized HIV outbreak among injection drug users (IDU) and many questioned how this could occur in the presence of a high volume needle exchange program (NEP). Specific concerns were fuelle[...]Article : Périodique
A. CAUDARELLA ; H. DONG ; M. J. MILLOY ; T. KERR ; E. WOOD ; K. HAYASHI |Objectives: To examine the relationship between non-fatal overdose and risk of subsequent fatal overdose. Methods: We assessed risk factors for overdose death among two prospective cohorts of persons who inject drugs (PWID) in Vancouver, Canada[...]Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; E. WOOD ; H. DONG ; S. DOBRER ; K. HAYASHI ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |The rapid increase of non-medical prescription opioid (PO) use among youth has been described as the most alarming drug use trend in North America (Compton and Volkow, 2006, McCabe et al., 2008 and Okie, 2010). After cannabis, youth consistently[...]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
T. KERR ; A. WODAK ; R. ELLIOTT ; J. S. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |FRANÇAIS : Il est reconnu que la substitution à la buprénorphine ou à la méthadone favorise la prévention et le traitement du VIH chez les usagers de drogues. Dans beaucoup de régions du monde (Asie, Europe de l'Est, les Etats de l'ex-Union Sov[...]Article : Périodique
E. LLOYD-SMITH ; T. KERR ; R. S. HOGG ; K. LI ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |ENGLISH : Recent studies have indicated that injection-related infections such as abscesses and cellulitis account for the majority of emergency room visits and acute hospitalizations accrued by local injection drug users. The objective of thi[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; STOLTZ J. A. ; Z. QUI ; R. ZHANG ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. W. TYNDALL |BACKGROUND: North America's first medically supervised safer injection facility (SIF) for illicit drug users was opened in Vancouver, Canada on 22 September 2003. We examined the prevalence and correlates of hepatitis C (HCV) infection among a r[...]Article : Périodique
J. KLIMAS ; W. Y. MOK ; S. LAKE ; M. E. SOCIAS ; K. DEBECK ; K. HAYASHI ; E. WOOD ; M. J. MILLOY |Background: While preliminary evidence has begun to document intentional use of one substance to reduce the use of another, the phenomenon of drug substitution among people who use illicit opioids remains understudied. Therefore, we sought to es[...]Article : Périodique
H. REDDON ; D. FAST ; K. DEBECK ; D. WERB ; K. HAYASHI ; E. WOOD ; M. J. MILLOY |Background: The illicit selling and use of cannabis is prevalent among marginalized people who use illicit drugs (PWUD). Given that participation in illicit drug markets has been previously associated with a range of health and social harms, we [...]Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: The health risks of crack cocaine smoking in public settings have not been well described. We sought to identify factors associated with public crack smoking, and assess the potential for a supervised inhalation facility to reduce en[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; M. W. TYNDALL ; R. ZHANG ; J. S. MONTANER ; T. KERR |BACKGROUND: Vancouver, Canada recently opened a medically supervised injecting facility (SIF) where injection drug users (IDU) can inject pre-obtained illicit drugs. Critics suggest that the facility does not help IDU to reduce their drug use. [...]Article : Périodique
S. E. HADLAND ; B. D. L. MARSHALL ; T. KERR ; C. LAI ; J. S. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Background: Current drug-control strategies in Canada focus funding and resources predominantly on drug law enforcement, often at the expense of preventive, treatment, and harm reduction efforts. This study aimed to examine the availability of t[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Overdose from illicit drugs is a leading cause of premature mortality in North America. Internationally, more than 65 supervised injecting facilities (SIFs), where drug users can inject pre-obtained illicit drugs, have been opened as[...]Périodique
E. WOOD ; P. M. SPITTAL ; T. KERR ; W. SMALL ; M. W. TYNDALL ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2003FRANÇAIS : Contexte : On a récemment associé le fait davoir besoin daide pour se piquer au partage des seringues, et plus tard à la séroconversion VIH-1 et VHC chez les utilisateurs de drogues injectables (UDI) de Vancouver. Nous avons voulu ét[...]Article : Périodique
T. KERR ; E. WOOD ; A. PALEPU ; D. WILSON ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; M. W. TYNDALL |Although there have been repeated calls for the establishment of safe injection facilities (SIFs) in Vancouver since the early 1990s, questions remain concerning the feasibility of SIFs due to the high prevalence of injection cocaine and the con[...]Article : Périodique
E. LLOYD-SMITH ; E. WOOD ; R. ZHANG ; M. W. TYNDALL ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; T. KERR |BACKGROUND: Cutaneous injection-related infections (CIRI), such as abscesses and cellulitis, are common and preventable among injection drug users (IDU). However, risk factors for CIRI have not been well described in the literature. We sought to[...]Article : Périodique
T. KERR ; M. TYNDALL ; K. LI ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |Safer injection facilities provide medical supervision for illicit drug injections. We aimed to examine factors associated with syringe sharing in a community-recruited cohort of illicit injection drug users in a setting where such a facility ha[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; M. W. TYNDALL ; Z. QUI ; R. ZHANG ; J. S. MONTANER ; T. KERR |ENGLISH : In 2003, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, opened North America's first government-sanctioned safer injecting facility, where injection drug users (IDUs) can inject preobtained illicit drugs under the supervision of nurses. Us[...]Périodique
K. DEBECK ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; B. FISCHER ; J. BUXTON ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2009FRANÇAIS : Cette étude menée par un centre britanno-colombien de recherche sur le sida, souligne le lien existant entre consommation de crack et transmission du VIH. Ces conclusions n'expliquent toutefois pas les raisons de ce fort taux de cont[...]Article : Périodique
K. DEBECK ; E. WOOD ; J. QI ; E. FU ; D. McARTHUR ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |BACKGROUND: Limited attention has been given to the potential role that the structure of housing available to people who are entrenched in street-based drug scenes may play in influencing the amount of time injection drug users (IDU) spend on pu[...]Périodique
C. L. MILLER ; K. J. CHAN ; A. PALEPU ; M. TYNDALL ; E. WOOD ; R. HOGG ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY | 2001ENGLISH : Objective: To describe the sociodemographic characteristics and HIV and Hepatitis C prevalence among persons who died of a drug overdose in the Vancouver metropolis health region in 1998. Methods: A retrospective review was conducted[...]Périodique
E. WOOD ; K. LI ; A. PALEPU ; D. C. MARSH ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; R. S. HOGG ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; T. KERR | 2005ENGLISH : Vancouver's explosive HIV epidemic among injection drug users (IDUs) has received international attention due to the presence of a large needle exchange program. The role of addiction treatment has not been evaluated in this setting.[...]Périodique
E. WOOD ; R. S. HOGG ; S. BONNER ; A. PALEPU ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2004FRANÇAIS : De mai 1996 à mai 2003, cette étude évalue la surveillance du taux de CD4 chez les usagers de drogues injectables ayant un libre accès aux thérapies antivirales. 39 % de l'échantillon n'a pas eu d'évaluation des CD4, dont une majorit[...]Périodique
K. DEBECK ; E. WOOD ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR | 2006FRANÇAIS : L'article développe une étude critique des dépenses et des activités liées à la stratégie canadienne anti-drogue renouvelée en 2003, évaluant son efficacité à la lumière des données scientifiques actuelles dans le domaine de la réduc[...]Article : Périodique
As the United States faces its most serious drug-overdose crisis in history, there are lessons to be learned from Canada, which has taken bold action on a number of fronts with the aim of reducing deaths related to opioids.Périodique
T. KERR ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2008ENGLISH : The spread of infectious diseases and overdoses among injection drug users remain major public-health challenges globally. In response to these concerns, an increasing number of countries have implemented supervised injection facilit[...]Article : Périodique
OBJECTIVE: To describe and critique methodological aspects of school-based interventions that involve a broader community initiative. METHODS: An electronic search of 11 databases and manual search of references for intervention studies publis[...]Article : Périodique
K. MCCRAE ; K. HAYASHI ; G. BARDWELL ; E. NOSOVA ; M. J. MILLOY ; E. WOOD ; L. TI |Objectives: Drug checking services aim to provide people who use drugs with information on the content and purity of their substances as a harm reduction intervention. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between injecti[...]Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; A. KAMARULZAMAN ; M. C. MEACHAM ; C. RAFFUL ; B. FISCHER ; S. A. STRATHDEE ; E. WOOD |Background: Despite widespread implementation of compulsory treatment modalities for drug dependence, there has been no systematic evaluation of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of compulsory drug treatment. Methods: We conducted a [...]Article : Périodique
G. R. WALTON ; K. HAYASHI ; P. BACH ; H. DONG ; T. KERR ; K. AHAMAD ; M. J. MILLOY ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |OBJECTIVE: Illicit drug use is a well-established risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality. However, little is known about the impact of benzodiazepine use on mortality among populations of polysubstance users. This study aimed to ident[...]Article : Périodique
S. NOLAN ; V. DIAS LIMA ; N. FAIRBAIRN ; T. KERR ; J. MONTANER ; J. GREBELY ; E. WOOD |Aims: To determine the relationship between methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) and hepatitis C (HCV) seroconversion among illicit drug users. Design: A generalized estimating equation model assuming a binomial distribution and a logit-link fu[...]Article : Périodique
In 2005, members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) formed the Injection Support Team (IST). A community-based research project examined this drug-user-led intervention through observation of team activities, over 30 interviews [...]Article : Périodique
Krusi A ; E. WOOD ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR |Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has dramatically improved health outcomes among people living with HIV/AIDS. However, significant rates of HIV-related morbidity and mortality have persisted among HIV-positive injection drug users (I[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; W. SMALL ; M. W. TYNDALL ; R. S. HOGG ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; M. T. SCHECHTER |Background: Although medically supervised safer injecting facilities (SIFs) remain untested in North America, their implementation is currently being debated. Reluctance of health policy makers to initiate a pilot study of SIFs may in part be hi[...]Périodique
ENGLISH : The primary response to the harms associated with illicit injection drug use in most settings has involved intensifying law enforcement in an effort to limit the supply and use of drugs. Policing approaches have been increasingly app[...]Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; T. KERR ; B. NOSYK ; S. STRATHDEE ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |FRANÇAIS : Un groupe de chercheurs états-uniens et canadiens ont étudié les données fournies par sept programmes gouvernementaux de surveillance du marché des drogues illicites. Leur conclusion est sans appel : la lutte internationale menée con[...]Périodique
E. WOOD ; D. WERB ; B. D. MARSHALL ; J. S. MONTANER ; T. KERR | 2009ENGLISH : Illegal drug use has long been a threat to community and public health. In response, UN conventions (1961, 1971, 1988) were created to criminalise the possession, use, and manufacture of illicit drugs.1 Internationally, the conventio[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: To assess the efficacy of topiramate in treating cocaine use disorder (i.e. retention, efficacy, safety and craving reduction) through a systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods: We searched six scientific databases from inception to[...]Article : Périodique
Comprehensive HIV prevention interventions are increasingly recognized as critical in the global effort to reduce HIV transmission among people who use injection drugs. Scientific evidence clearly shows that a variety of biomedical, behavioral, [...]Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; N. HERSHFIELD ; R. W. H. PALMER ; R. S. REMIS |Background Canadian injection drug users (IDUs) are at high risk of hepatitis C virus infection (HCV). However, little is known about the costs associated with their HCV-related medical treatment. We estimated the medical costs of treating HCV-i[...]Article : Périodique
C. RONSLEY ; S. NOLAN ; R. KNIGHT ; K. HAYASHI ; J. KLIMAS ; A. WALLEY ; E. WOOD ; N. FAIRBAIRN |Aims: Stimulant use disorder contributes to a substantial worldwide burden of disease, although evidence-based treatment options are limited. This systematic review of reviews aims to: (i) synthesize the available evidence on both psychosocial a[...]Périodique
E. WOOD ; M. W. TYNDALL ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; T. KERR ; R. S. HOGG ; J. S. MONTANER ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2001BACKGROUND: In several European countries safer injecting rooms have reduced the public disorder and health-related problems of injection drug use. We explored factors associated with needle-sharing practices that could potentially be alleviated[...]