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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.[...]