Psychiatric disorders and drug use among human immunodeficiency virus–infected adults in the United States

EG Bing, MA Burnam, D Longshore… - Archives of general …, 2001 - jamanetwork.com
… The prevalence of drug use and drug dependence among people with HIV disease is …
between injection drug use and HIV transmission. In the United States, injection drug use has …

The contribution of impurities to the acute morbidity of illegal drug use

R Shesser, R Jotte, J Olshaker - … American journal of emergency medicine, 1991 - Elsevier
… concerning the relative frequencies of street drug impurities and additives in the United
States. However, variation of contaminants in street drug preparations often exists even within a …

Social capital influence in illicit drug use among racial/ethnic groups in the United States

H Reynoso-Vallejo - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… The purpose of this article is to elucidate the relationship between social capital and illicit
drug use among diverse racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Social capital has received …

Subcultural evolution and illicit drug use

A Golub, BD Johnson, E Dunlap - Addiction research & theory, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
United States, especially among inner-city populations. From this perspective, drug use
emerges from a dialectic between drugdrugs’ popularity by imparting significance to their use. …

Undocumented alcoholism and its correlation with tobacco and illegal drug use in advanced cancer patients

R Dev, HA Parsons, S Palla, JL Palmer, E Del Fabbro… - Cancer, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… the United States, there is an epidemic of prescription drugillegal drug use, the specific
drug was noted as follows: marijuana (11 patients), intravenous drug abuse (5 patients), cocaine

[PDF][PDF] Rethinking America's illegal drug policy

JJ Donohue III, B Ewing, D Pelopquin - Controlling crime: Strategies and …, 2010 - nber.org
America’s illegal drug problem, first sketching consumption … , and the social costs of illegal
drugs under America’s basic … United States has vastly more alcoholics than drug addicts in …

What data are available on the extent of illicit drug use and dependence globally? Results of four systematic reviews

…, L Wiessing, GBD Illicit Drug Use Writing Group - Drug and alcohol …, 2011 - Elsevier
… markets over the past decade (Reuter and Trautmann, 2009, United, 2009b). … illicit drug
use to update and revise estimates of the global burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use (…

The role of the Inter-American Drug Abuse control commission (cIcAD): confronting the problem of illegal drugs in the Americas

B Horwitz - Latin American Politics and Society, 2010 - cambridge.org
… This article proposes that the United States and Latin America are finding ways to use multilateral
organisms to confront this threat and examines as an example the role of CICAD in …

Illicit drug use and treatment in South Africa: a review

K Peltzer, S Ramlagan, BD Johnson… - Substance use & …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… An increase in substance user treatment admissions has increased. While the prevalence
of illicit drug use in South Africa is relatively low compared to the United States and Australia, …

The prescription drug epidemic in the United States: a perfect storm

JC Maxwell - Drug and alcohol review, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… Research and is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The annual survey tracks
illicit drug use and attitudes towards drugs by approximately 50 000 eighth, tenth and twelfth …