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Research & Reviews 360 results
https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2023.2181036
Substance Use & misUse; Armoon B, Griffiths MD et. al.
Mar 17th, 2023 - Background: Globally, street-involved children and youth (SICY) who work and live on/of the streets are at higher risk of increased psychoactive substances and injecting drug use. Objectives: The present study aimed to identify the prevalence, dis...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2023.03.001
The Journal of Infection; Geretti AM, Austin H et. al.
Mar 12th, 2023 - We analysed hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) screening and seropositivity within a network of 419 general practices representative of all regions of England. Information was extracted using pseudonymised registration data. Predictors of HBsAg s...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109803
Drug and Alcohol Dependence; Darke S, Duflou J et. al.
Feb 13th, 2023 - There has been a substantial global increase in cocaine use and associated harms. The current study aimed to: 1. Determine the case characteristics and circumstances of death of cocaine-related suicide in Australia 2000-2021; and 2. Determine the ...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04156945
Feb 10th, 2023 - Rationale: As highly effective therapy against hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is available with rapid uptake, there is newfound optimism for HCV elimination. Nevertheless, HCV reinfections cause great concern in at risk populations, including m...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9901755
PloS One; Pant SB, Thapa SB et. al.
Feb 7th, 2023 - Opioid use disorder is a serious public health problem in Nepal. People who use opioids often experience psychological distress and poor quality of life. Opioid agonist Treatment (OAT) is central in managing opioid dependence. This study aimed to ...
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Clinicaltrials.gov 26 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04156945
Feb 10th, 2023 - Rationale: As highly effective therapy against hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is available with rapid uptake, there is newfound optimism for HCV elimination. Nevertheless, HCV reinfections cause great concern in at risk populations, including m...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03356405
Jan 27th, 2023 - Hepatitis C is a blood-borne virus (HCV) that can seriously damage the liver and is spread mainly through blood-to-blood contact with an infected person. The "serious and significant public health risk" posed by HCV was recognised during a member'...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04014179
Jan 17th, 2023 - The TEMPO study will compare dried blood spot testing and point-of-care HCV RNA testing to standard of care as strategies to enhance HCV treatment uptake among people with HCV and recent injecting drug use attending NSP services. Peer support to e...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05016609
Aug 18th, 2022 - The QuickStart Study will explore models of point-of-care HCV testing and a same-day test and treat model to determine the impact of these models on HCV treatment initiation and cure. The study is a cluster cross-over randomised controlled trial. ...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03441542
May 25th, 2022 - EZ-C's purpose is to determine the effectiveness of patient navigation services during treatment of hepatitis C compared to usual care among opioid substitution therapy (OST) and active injecting drug use (IDU) individuals. To recruit OST and acti...
News 17 results
https://www.mdedge.com/infectiousdisease/article/215948/hiv/hcv-risk-hiv-negative-msm-who-use-prep
Mark S. Lesney
Jan 22nd, 2020 - Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is known to be a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM). To examine this relationship in HIV-negative MSM, researchers in the Amsterdam PrEP Project team in the HIV Tr.
https://www.mdedge.com/familymedicine/article/169460/addiction-medicine/reverse-transitions-injecting-noninjecting-drug-use
MDedge Psychiatry; Doug Brunk
Jul 3rd, 2018 - SAN DIEGO – The transition from noninjecting to injecting drug use can be a reversible process, results from a long-term study suggest. “There’s a common stereotype in popular culture and in academic research that once people start injecting drugs.
https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/169460/addiction-medicine/reverse-transitions-injecting-noninjecting-drug-use
Doug Brunk
Jul 3rd, 2018 - SAN DIEGO – The transition from noninjecting to injecting drug use can be a reversible process, results from a long-term study suggest. “There’s a common stereotype in popular culture and in academic research that once people start injecting drugs.
https://reference.staging.medscape.com/viewarticle/838887_3
Feb 3rd, 2015 - Most individuals who use injection drugs inject their drugs intravenously, but subcutaneous injection (ie, "skin-popping") is also common, and intramuscular injection may occur intentionally or when the individual misses the vein or the subcutaneo...
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/805739
Jun 12th, 2013 - Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate nearly halved (48.9%) HIV infection rates in injection drug users, according to a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial of 2413 participants in Thailand. Kachi...