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Auteur W. SMALL |
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STOLTZ J. A. ; E. WOOD ; W. SMALL ; K. LI ; M. TYNDALL ; J. MONTANER ; T. KERR | 2007ENGLISH : Injection drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to serious health complications resulting from unsafe injection practices. We examined whether the use of a supervised safer injection facility (SIF) promoted change in injecting practices a[...]![]()
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E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; W. SMALL ; K. LI ; D. C. MARSH ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. W. TYNDALL | 2004Background: North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility for illicit injection drug users was opened in Vancouver on Sept. 22, 2003. Although similar facilities exist in a number of European cities and in Sydney, Australia[...]![]()
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T. KERR ; W. SMALL ; C. JOHNSTON ; K. LI ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD |ENGLISH : So-called balanced drug policy couples enforcement initiatives targeting drug dealers with health-focused interventions serving addicted individuals. There are few evaluations of this approach, and little is known about how these two[...]![]()
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E. WOOD ; P. M. SPITTAL ; W. SMALL ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; R. S. HOGG ; M. W. TYNDALL ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2004Background: Law enforcement is often used in an effort to reduce the social, community and health-related harms of illicit drug use by injection drug users (IDUs). There are, however, few data on the benefits of such enforcement or on the potent[...]![]()
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ENGLISH : While unprotected sexual intercourse and the use of contaminated injection equipment account for the majority of HIV infections worldwide, other routes of HIV transmission have received less attention. We report on a case of HIV tran[...]![]()
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FRANÇAIS : Bien que les avantages des centres d’injection supervisés (CIS) sur le plan de la santé publique soient bien documentés, il y a un manque de recherche sur les opinions des utilisateurs de drogues injectables (UDI) concernant le fonct[...]![]()
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W. SMALL ; KAIN S. ; LALIBERTE N. ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; P. M. SPITTAL | 2005ENGLISH : Within Canadian prisons HIV/AIDS is becoming more common among inmates. While injection drug use in correctional facilities is documented to be a problem, qualitative research into the HIV risks faced inmates is lacking. The goal of [...]![]()
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W. SMALL ; E. WOOD ; R. JÜRGENS ; T. KERR | 2005ENGLISH : The reliance on law enforcement as the dominant drug policy approach has resulted in record incarceration rates in many countries. Human rights advocates and public health researchers have argued that the risks of HIV transmission re[...]![]()
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W. SMALL ; J. SHOVELLER ; D. MOORE ; M. TYNDALL ; E. WOOD ; T. KERR |North America's first supervised injection facility (SIF) was established in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003. Although evaluation research has documented reductions in risk behavior among SIF users, there has been limited examination of the influence[...]![]()
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Background: Illicit drug markets are a key component of the risk environment surrounding injection drug use. However, relatively few studies have explored how injection drug users' (IDUs) involvement in drug dealing shapes their experiences of d[...]![]()
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T. KERR ; W. SMALL ; E. HYSHKA ; L. MAHER ; K. SHANNON |AIMS. To assess heroin injectors' perceptions of and responses to a warning issued by public health officials regarding high-potency heroin and increases in fatal overdoses. DESIGN. Semi-structured qualitative interviews. SETTING. Vancouver,[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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There is growing acknowledgment that social, structural, and environmental forces produce vulnerability to health harms among people who inject drugs (PWID), and safer environment interventions (SEI) have been identified as critical to mitigatin[...]