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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[...]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[...]