Hesse, Morten Thomsen, Kristine Rømer Thylstrup, Birgitte Andersen, Charlotte Uggerhøj Reitzel, Lotte Ask Worm-Leonhard, Martin Lindholst, Christian
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Forensic science international
Cocaine-related emergency department admissions are increasing, and cocaine seizures are at an all-time high in Europe. Our aim was to investigate the trends in purity and adulterants over time in cocaine available to cocaine users at street level in Denmark. We used a representative sample of cocaine seized at street level and analyzed by the nati...
Miró, Òscar Miró, Emília García-Lamberechts, Eric Jorge Villamor, Alberto González Del Castillo, Juan
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Emergencias : revista de la Sociedad Espanola de Medicina de Emergencias
Existe un margen importante de mejora en los SUH en cuanto a la detección de la infección oculta por VIH. La implementación de ciertas medidas conseguiría una mejor aceptación de las estrategias de detección precoz por los colectivos implicados, aunque con diferencias notables entre comunidades autónomas.
Elkhalifa, Sulaf Jozaghi, Ehsan Marsh, Samona Thomson, Erica Gregg, Delilah Buxton, Jane Jolly, Ann
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Harm Reduction Journal
BackgroundThe smoking of illicit drugs presents a serious social and economic burden in Canada. People who smoke drugs (PWSD) are at increased risk of contracting multiple infections through risky drug practices. Peer-led harm reduction activities, and the resulting social networks that form around them, can potentially minimize the dangers associa...
Hswen, Yulin Zhang, Amanda Brownstein, John S
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Preventive medicine
Increasing capacity to provide buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid addiction, can help mitigate the opioid epidemic in the United States. This study models black-market pricing of buprenorphine to better understand supply and demand for opioid addiction treatment. A mixed effects linear model was used to quantify the effect of county-level racial...
Hswen, Yulin Zhang, Amanda Brownstein, John S
Increasing capacity to provide buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid addiction, can help mitigate the opioid epidemic in the United States. This study models black-market pricing of buprenorphine to better understand supply and demand for opioid addiction treatment. A mixed effects linear model was used to quantify the effect of county-level racial...
Richards, Julie E Bobb, Jennifer F Lee, Amy K Lapham, Gwen T Williams, Emily C Glass, Joseph E Ludman, Evette J Achtmeyer, Carol Caldeiro, Ryan M Oliver, Malia
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Drug and alcohol dependence
This pilot study evaluated whether use of evidence-based implementation strategies to integrate care for cannabis and other drug use into primary care (PC) as part of Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) increased diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). Patients who visited the three pilot PC sites were eligible. Implementation st...
Bourque, Stacey Pijl, Em M. Mason, Erin Manning, Jill Motz, Takara
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Canadian Journal of Public Health
SettingThe first regulated supervised inhalation site (safer smoking room) in North America has opened in Lethbridge, Alberta, as part of a supervised consumption site addressing all routes of consumption. When designing the service, we felt it was important to accommodate not just injection drug use but also inhalation because (1) it is not the me...
Alemán, Teresa Hamilton, Hayley
ABSTRACT Objective: determine the attitudes of urban residents of a community in León, Nicaragua, towards people with drug use. Method: cross-sectional study with 121 people, aged 18-65, randomly surveyed with a multidimensional Attitude Inventory. Results: the global scale of attitudes showed negative attitudes to marijuana and cocaine (62 and 78%...
Oliveira, Luciano Machado Ferreira Tenór... Santos, Ana Raquel Mendes dos Farah, Breno Quintella Ritti-Dias, Raphael Mendes Freitas, Clara Maria Silvestre Monteiro ... Diniz, Paula Rejane Beserra
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the association between parental smoking and the use of alcohol and illicit drugs among adolescent children. Methods: A cross-sectional study with 6,264 adolescents (59.7% female) aged between 14 and 19 years. To establish the sample, we used two-stage cluster random sampling. The data on parental smoking and use of ...
Delgado, Cristina Alexandra Brands, Bruna
ABSTRACT Objective: analyze attitudes toward people with problematic drug use in the city of Loja, Ecuador. Method: a quantitative, cross-sectional, preliminary study using survey methodology aimed at collecting data on attitudes towards people with problematic drug use by residents in the city of Loja, Ecuador. The sample size is 121 individuals. ...
