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Article : 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
G. BARDWELL ; W. SMALL ; J. LAVALLEY ; R. MCNEIL ; T. KERR |The practice of prescription opioid (PO) diversion remains highly controversial and has been characterized as a source of significant drug-related harm by physicians and public health officials. We critically analyze the "problem" of diversion t[...]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
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
J. CSETE ; A. KAMARULZAMAN ; M. KAZATCHKINE ; F. ALTICE ; M. BALICKI ; J. BUXTON ; J. CEPEDA ; M. COMFORT ; E. GOOSBY ; J. GOULAO ; C. HART ; T. KERR ; A. M. LAJOUS ; S. LEWIS ; N. MARTIN ; D. MEJIA ; A. CAMACHO ; D. MATHIESON ; I. OBOT ; A. OGUNROMBI ; S. SHERMAN ; J. STONE ; N. VALLATH ; P. VICKERMAN ; T. ZABRANSKY ; C. BEYRER |ENGLISH: In September, 2015, the member states of the UN endorsed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, which aspire to human-rights-centred approaches to ensuring the health and wellbeing of all people. The SDGs embody both the UN Cha[...]Périodique
T. RHODES ; J. KIMBER ; W. SMALL ; J. FITZGERALD ; T. KERR ; M. HICKMAN ; G. HOLLOWAY | 2006Background: One key structural dimension in the distribution of drug-related harm associated with injecting drug use is the injecting environment. Epidemiological evidence associates elevated blood-borne viral risk with injecting in 'public' and[...]Article : Périodique
H. REDDON ; T. KERR ; M. J. MILLOY |Evidence-based medicine has consistently prized the epistemological value of randomized-controlled trials (RCTs) owing to their methodological advantages over alternative designs such as observational studies. However, there are limitations to R[...]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
O. BROOKS ; K. HAYASHI ; Z. CUI ; M. J. MILLOY ; T. KERR ; N. FAIRBAIRN |Background: People who use drugs (PWUD) are disproportionately incarcerated, however little is known about specific substance use, social and structural factors associated with re-incarceration among PWUD. We aimed to identify the socio-structur[...]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
A. IVSINS ; A. WARNOCK ; W. SMALL ; C. STRIKE ; T. KERR ; G. BARDWELL |A substantial body of evidence demonstrates that supervised consumption services (SCS) mitigate a variety of drug-related harms, including decreasing overdose deaths, infectious disease transmission, and connecting people who use drugs (PWUD) to[...]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[...]Article : Périodique
D. WERB ; R. GARFEIN ; T. KERR ; P. DAVIDSON ; P. ROUX ; M. JAUFFRET-ROUSTIDE ; M. AURIACOMBE ; W. SMALL ; S. A. STRATHDEE |Background: Injection drug use remains a primary driver of HIV and HCV-related harms globally. However, there is a gap in efforts to prevent individuals from transitioning into injecting. People who inject drugs (PWID) play a key role in the tra[...]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
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[...]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
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
There has been widespread support for harm reduction programs as an essential component for responding to the HIV and illicit drug use epidemics. However, despite the growing international acceptance of harm reduction, there continues to be stro[...]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
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
G. BARDWELL ; J. BOYD ; J. ARREDONDO ; R. MCNEIL ; T. KERR |Objectives: Drug checking technologies (DCTs) have been implemented as a response to the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic. We examined the level of trust people who use drugs (PWUD) have in their drug dealers as well as their perspectives on the[...]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[...]Article : Périodique
R. MCNEIL ; T. KERR ; H. LAMPKIN ; W. SMALL |Introduction: Many cities around the globe have experienced substantial increases in crack cocaine use. Public health programmes have begun to address crack smoking, primarily through the distribution of safer crack use equipment, but their impa[...]