Opioid use disorder

J Strang, ND Volkow, L Degenhardt… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic relapsing disorder that, whilst initially driven by
activation of brain reward neurocircuits, increasingly engages anti-reward neurocircuits that …

Supervised injection services: what has been demonstrated? A systematic literature review

C Potier, V Laprévote, F Dubois-Arber… - Drug and alcohol …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Supervised injection services (SISs) have been developed to promote
safer drug injection practices, enhance health-related behaviors among people who inject …

Supervised injection facilities in Canada: past, present, and future

T Kerr, S Mitra, MC Kennedy, R McNeil - Harm reduction journal, 2017 - Springer
Canada has long contended with harms arising from injection drug use. In response to
epidemics of HIV infection and overdose in Vancouver in the mid-1990s, a range of actors …

Reduction in overdose mortality after the opening of North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility: a retrospective population-based study

BDL Marshall, MJ Milloy, E Wood, JSG Montaner… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background Overdose from illicit drugs is a leading cause of premature mortality in North
America. Internationally, more than 65 supervised injecting facilities (SIFs), where drug …

Interventions to prevent HIV and hepatitis C in people who inject drugs: a review of reviews to assess evidence of effectiveness

GJ MacArthur, E van Velzen, N Palmateer… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Injecting drug use is a major risk factor for the acquisition and transmission of
HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Prevention of these infections among people who inject …

Hospitals as a 'risk environment': an ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who …

R McNeil, W Small, E Wood, T Kerr - Social science & medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
People who inject drugs (PWID) experience high levels of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C (HCV)
infection that, together with injection-related complications such as non-fatal overdose and …

Gendered violence and overdose prevention sites: a rapid ethnographic study during an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada

J Boyd, AB Collins, S Mayer, L Maher, T Kerr… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims North America's overdose epidemic is increasingly driven by
fentanyl and fentanyl‐adulterated drugs. Supervised consumption sites, including low …

Charting a path towards a public health approach for gambling harm prevention

A Price, M Hilbrecht, R Billi - Journal of Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Aim Gambling harm is a serious public health issue affecting the health, financial security,
and social well-being of millions of people and their close relations around the world …

HIV prevention in clinical care settings: 2014 recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel

JM Marrazzo, C Del Rio, DR Holtgrave, MS Cohen… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Emerging data warrant the integration of biomedical and behavioral
recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention in clinical care …

The cost-effectiveness of Vancouver's supervised injection facility

AM Bayoumi, GS Zaric - Cmaj, 2008 - Can Med Assoc
Background: The cost-effectiveness of Canada's only supervised injection facility has not
been rigorously evaluated. We estimated the impact of the facility on survival, rates of HIV …