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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[...]Article : Périodique
A. GADDIS ; M. C. KENNEDY ; E. NOSOVA ; M. J. MILLOY ; K. HAYASHI ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR |Objectives: Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) are increasingly being implemented worldwide in response to the harms associated with injection drug use. Although SIFs have been shown to promote engagement of people who use injection drugs (P[...]Article : Périodique
E. WOOD ; D. WERB ; M. KAZATCHKINE ; T. KERR ; HANKINS C. ; R. GORNA ; D. NUTT ; D. C. DES JARLAIS ; F. BARRE-SINOUSSI ; J. MONTANER |There remain crucial areas in public health in which the gap between evidence and public policy persists, and there are few more striking than in the global response to illicit drugs. In the USA, for example, annual federal budgets for drug-law[...]