Public health and international drug policy

J Csete, A Kamarulzaman, M Kazatchkine, F Altice… - The Lancet, 2016‏ - thelancet.com
Executive summary In September, 2015, the member states of the UN endorsed Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, which aspire to human-rights-centred approaches to …

Needle and syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy for preventing HCV transmission among people who inject drugs: findings from a Cochrane Review …

L Platt, S Minozzi, J Reed, P Vickerman, H Hagan… - …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aims To estimate the effects of needle and syringe programmes (NSP) and opioid
substitution therapy (OST), alone or in combination, for preventing acquisition of hepatitis C …

Global epidemiology of HIV among female sex workers: influence of structural determinants

K Shannon, SA Strathdee, SM Goldenberg, P Duff… - The Lancet, 2015‏ - thelancet.com
Female sex workers (FSWs) bear a disproportionately large burden of HIV infection
worldwide. Despite decades of research and programme activity, the epidemiology of HIV …

Needle syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy for preventing hepatitis C transmission in people who inject drugs

L Platt, S Minozzi, J Reed, P Vickerman… - Cochrane Database …, 2017‏ - cochranelibrary.com
Needle syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy for preventing hepatitis C
transmission in people who inject drugs - Platt, L - 2017 | Cochrane Library Skip to Content …

Are needle and syringe programmes associated with a reduction in HIV transmission among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

EJ Aspinall, D Nambiar, DJ Goldberg… - International journal …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Background Needle and syringe programmes (NSP) aim to reduce the risk of HIV by
providing people who inject drugs (PWID) with sterile injecting equipment. A recent review of …

[کتاب][B] The globalization of addiction: A study in poverty of the spirit

B Alexander - 2010‏ - books.google.com
'The Globalization of Addiction'presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction.
Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to …

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 …

The 'risk environment': a framework for understanding and reducing drug-related harm

T Rhodes - International journal of drug policy, 2002‏ - Elsevier
Public discourses on health increasingly emphasise the environment. While harm reduction
has developed in parallel with the new public health movement, and both seek to encourage …

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 …

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 …