Objectives: To examine the longitudinal relationships between US adolescents' prescription
opioid use and misuse and any subsequent heroin use in adulthood. Methods: Nationally …

Aims. To describe temporal trends in methamphetamine use among young injection drug
users (IDU) in San Francisco. Design and Methods. Secondary analysis of cross‐sectional …

Background Street-involved youth are at high risk for experimenting with injection drug use;
however, little attention has been given to identifying the factors that predict progression to …

This national study of US counties (n= 2963) investigated whether county-level drug
overdose mortality is associated with maltreatment report rates, and whether the relationship …

Background: The incidence of hospital-presenting self-harm peaks among young people,
who most often engage in intentional drug overdose (IDO). The risk of self-harm repetition is …

Aims Accidental drug overdose contributes substantially to mortality among drug users. Multi‐
drug use has been documented as a key risk factor in overdose and overdose mortality in …

Background Drug overdose (OD) is the leading cause of accidental death in the United
States and most of these deaths involve opioids. Despite research linking opioid abuse to …

OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether childhood sexual abuse predicts initiation of
injection drug use in a prospective cohort of youth. METHOD: From October 2005 to …

Background Amidst an increasingly toxic drug supply in North America, people who inject
drugs may be transitioning to smoking them. We aimed to assess changes in injecting and …

Young injecting drug users (IDUs) are at high risk for a number of negative health outcomes
such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection …