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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[...]