ABSTRACT A total of 852 participants attending 11 centers for addiction treatment in north
Italy following problems due to cocaine abuse between 1989 and 2013 were recruited. Two …

Cocaine abuse increases the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) and
causes acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and hypertension (HTN). Significant research has …

Background In the context of changing cannabis and other drug policy and regulation,
concerns may arise regarding drug treatment access and use. We assessed …

Background There is concern that cannabis use negatively affects vulnerable groups such
as youth; however, the relationship between cannabis use and health care utilization has …

Background: Cocaine-related health consequences are difficult to observe. Data on drug
users in health-emergency settings may be a useful source of information on consequences …

The concentrations of cocaine and its major metabolite benzoylecgonine (BZE) were
determined in femoral blood from 132 cocaine-related deaths and compared with venous …

Background People who inject drugs (PWID) remain a high priority population under the
federal Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative with 11% of new HIV infections attributable to …

Background Most substance use disorders (SUD) treatment clinical trials are too short and
small to reliably estimate the incidence of rare events like death. Objective The aim of this …

Introduction Studies of health utilities among people who use opioids have mostly been
based on in‐treatment populations. We aim to report utility‐based quality of life by …

Background To describe all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of people who
had ever injected drugs (PWID) with a low prevalence of HIV over 20–30 years. Methods …