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Gambling has quickly emerged as an important global public health issue. With new technologies used to develop high intensity gambling products and promotions aimed at driving consumption, public health organi...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:49
Published on: 25 July 2017
Review
The Golden Crescent region of South Asia—comprising Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan—is a principal global site for opium production and distribution. Over the past few decades, war, terrorism, and a shifting p...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:47
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research
There is good evidence to suggest that performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) use is increasing in Australia and that there is an increase in those using PIEDs who have never used another illicit substanc...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:48
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research
In 2015, the Australian government launched the media campaign Ice Destroys Lives targeting crystal methamphetamine use. Previous research indicates mass media campaigns may have harmful effects for people engage...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:45
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research
Supervised injection services (SIS) have been shown to reduce the public- and individual-level harms associated with injection drug use. While SIS feasibility research has been conducted in large urban centres...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:46
Published on: 14 July 2017
Review
New, more effective and better-tolerated therapies for hepatitis C (HCV) have made the elimination of HCV a feasible objective. However, for this to be achieved, it is necessary to have a detailed understandin...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:44
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research
Kyrgyzstan, where HIV is concentrated in prisons and driven by injection drug use, provides a prison-based methadone maintenance therapy program as well as abstinence-oriented therapeutic community based on th...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:43
Published on: 10 July 2017
Erratum
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:42
Published on: 3 July 2017
The original article was published in Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:16
Research
Personal networks are significant social spaces to spread of HIV or other blood-borne infections among hard-to-reach population, viz., injecting drug users, female sex workers, etc. Sharing of infected needles...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:41
Published on: 3 July 2017
Research
Women who inject drugs (WWID) are at heightened risk for HIV due to biological, behavioral, and structural factors. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) could aid in HIV prevention for WWID. However, little is know...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:40
Published on: 29 June 2017
Research
Harm reduction interventions in Cambodia face numerous obstacles because of conflicting understanding and interests and inconsistencies in the implementation by law enforcement officials. This study aims to ex...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:39
Published on: 19 June 2017
Research
WHO, UNODC, and UNAIDS recommend a comprehensive package for prevention, treatment, and care of HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). We describe the uptake of services and the cost of implementing a compr...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:38
Published on: 14 June 2017
Opinion
Harm reduction policies and attitudes in the United States have advanced substantially in recent years but still lag behind more advanced jurisdictions in Europe and elsewhere. The Obama administration, partic...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:37
Published on: 12 June 2017
Erratum
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:36
Published on: 9 June 2017
The original article was published in Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:27
Research
Take home naloxone (THN) programs reduce mortality by training bystanders to respond to opioid overdoses. Clinical observation by the health care team at the Inner City Youth (ICY) program indicated that young...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:34
Published on: 7 June 2017
Research
Stigma, criminalisation and a lack of data on drug use contribute to the “invisibility” of people who inject drugs (PWID) and make HIV prevention and treatment service delivery challenging. We aimed to confirm...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:35
Published on: 7 June 2017
Commentary
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:32
Published on: 5 June 2017
Research
The HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Russia continues to spread. This exploratory study examines how HIV-prevention measures are perceived and experienced by PWID in the northwestern region...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:33
Published on: 5 June 2017
Research
Injection drug use is associated with HIV and hepatitis C transmission, overdose, and other preventable harms. These harms are heightened for structurally vulnerable injection drug-using populations, as their ...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:31
Published on: 5 June 2017
Review
Housing First is an evidence-based practice intended to serve chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders. Despite housing active substance users, harm...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:30
Published on: 23 May 2017
Research
Little is known about access to health insurance among people who inject drugs (PWID) who attend syringe exchange programs (SEPs). The goal of the current study was to assess perceptions of SEP staff, includin...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:26
Published on: 18 May 2017
Review
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 advocated for the creation of super...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:28
Published on: 18 May 2017
Research
This article highlights the experiences of a peer-run group, SALOME/NAOMI Association of Patients (SNAP), that meets weekly in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. SNAP is a unique ind...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:27
Published on: 18 May 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:36
Research
Previous research on the effectiveness of needle exchange programs (NEP) in preventing hepatitis C virus (HCV) in people who inject drugs (PWID) has shown mixed findings. The purpose of this study was to use t...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:25
Published on: 17 May 2017
Research
People who smoke crack cocaine experience a wide variety of health-related issues. However, public health programming designed for this population is limited, particularly in comparison with programming for pe...
Harm Reduction Journal 2017 14:17
Published on: 12 May 2017
