Illicit drug use and treatment in South Africa: a review

K Peltzer, S Ramlagan, BD Johnson… - Substance use & …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… 9.2%, and prescription and OTC drugs 2.6%. An increase in substance user treatment
admissions has increased. While the prevalence of illicit drug use in South Africa is relatively low …

Illicit drug use

L Degenhardt, W Hall, M Warner-Smith… - … quantification of health …, 2004 - JSTOR
… In cohort studies of treated drug users the problematic use of illicit drugs has … treatment
programmes (eg opioid agonist maintenance treatment) can substantially reduce illicit opioid use

Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles of illicit drug use and treatment of illicit drug users

DI Quinn, A Wodak, RO Day - Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 1997 - Springer
… part of the treatment of illicit drug users. The complications of illicit drug use present many …
As with all patients consuming multiple drugs, illicit drug users are prone to developing drug

Managing illicit drug use: a practical guide

A Wodak - Drugs, 1994 - Springer
… The treatment of illicit drug users involves a population defined by an illegal … Treatment of
illicit drug users should aim to reverse the health and social problems associated with drug use

The impact of illicit drug use and substance abuse treatment on adherence to HAART

PL Hicks, KP Mulvey, G Chander, JA Fleishman… - AIDS care, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… This study suggests that illicit drug use and substance abuse treatment may interact to …
users were significantly less adherent than never users, regardless of substance abuse treatment

Illicit drug use: Clinical features and treatment

E Day - Seminars in Addiction Psychiatry, 2021 - books.google.com
… Cannabis use perhaps … Illicit drug use has much in common with use of mainstream
substances such as alcohol, but also a number of significant differences. The illegality of use adds …

The impact of ongoing illicit drug use on methadone adherence in illicit drug users receiving treatment for HIV in a directly observed therapy program

JD Raffa, J Grebely, H Tossonian, T Wong… - Drug and alcohol …, 2007 - Elsevier
illicit drug use on methadone adherence within a DOT program for the treatment of HIV-infection. …
was common, with only 4 of 60 patients abstaining from all illicit drug use. Overall …

Equity of access to treatment, and barriers to treatment for illicit drug use in Australia

E Digiusto, C Treloar - Addiction, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… relating to whether Australian illicit drug users who had never undertaken drug treatment
differed from drug users who had participated in such treatment in terms of variables that …

Gender and illicit drug use

J Neale - British Journal of Social Work, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… ’s drug use and life circumstances differ? And do male and female drug users require …
This paper examines gender differences between new drug treatment clients in Scotland and …

Tuberculosis and illicit drug use: review and update

RG Deiss, TC Rodwell… - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Drug users, and injection drug users in particular, have … and treatment of TB among illicit
drug users remain important components of a comprehensive TB strategy, but illicit drug users