Objectives To examine survival and long term cessation of injecting in a cohort of drug users
and to assess the influence of opiate substitution treatment on these outcomes. Design …

Approximately 17% of individuals living with HIV/AIDS pass through the correctional system
each year. Jails provide a unique opportunity to diagnose and treat HIV infection among …

Neighborhood socioeconomic environment may be a determinant of injection drug use
cessation. The authors used data from a prospective cohort study of Baltimore City …

Background Treatment for drug addiction is effective in reducing the harms of injection drug
use, including infection with HIV and/or hepatitis C. We sought to examine the prevalence …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) on cocaine
use and cocaine injection among heroin users. METHODS: Generalized estimating …

Background Injection drug use is an important public health problem. Epidemiological
understanding of this problem is incomplete as longitudinal studies in the general …

There is a scant amount of research investigating injecting drug use among people not
selected on the basis of their injecting behaviour, and less attention has been given to …

This report summarises the existing peer reviewed and grey literature describing evidence
on the nature and degree of risks and experiences of women who inject drugs and women …

• Disinhibited personality can be parsed into three correlated dimensions.• Disinhibitory
personality traits are differentially associated with alcohol use and problems.• Impulsivity …

Abstract Introduction and Aims. The Cedar Project is a community-based study aiming to
identify variables associated with ever being on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) …