| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveBrief Reports Designing an experimental HIV/HCV intervention to promote the safe re-use of drug preparation materials by injection drug users in Puerto Rico H Ann Finlinson, Héctor M Colón, Juan Negrón, and Rafaela R Robles PMCID: PMC2383883 High prevalence of HIV infection among homeless and street-involved Aboriginal youth in a Canadian setting Brandon DL Marshall, Thomas Kerr, Chris Livingstone, Kathy Li, Julio SG Montaner, and Evan Wood PMCID: PMC2607257 Commentaries Controlling illegal stimulants: a regulated market model Mark Haden PMCID: PMC2238741 Amazing grace: Vancouver's supervised injection facility granted six-month lease on life Dan Small PMCID: PMC2233622 Is low-nicotine Marlboro snus really snus? Jonathan Foulds and Helena Furberg PMCID: PMC2288606 Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board Dan Small and Ernest Drucker PMCID: PMC2409317 Half a gram – a thousand lives Lev Levinson PMCID: PMC2474596 Accelerating harm reduction interventions to confront the HIV epidemic in the Western Pacific and Asia: the role of WHO (WPRO) Fabio Mesquita, David Jacka, Dominique Ricard, Graham Shaw, Han Tieru, Hu Yifei, Katharine Poundstone, Madeline Salva, Masami Fujita, and Nirmal Singh PMCID: PMC2546385 Fighting addiction's death row: British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Ian Pitfield shows a measure of legal courage Dan Small PMCID: PMC2611970 Editorial On drug treatment and social control: Russian narcology's great leap backwards Richard Elovich and Ernest Drucker PMCID: PMC2474597 Research A qualitative study of overdose responses among Chicago IDUs Susan G Sherman, Donald S Gann, Gregory Scott, Suzanne Carlberg, Dan Bigg, and Robert Heimer PMCID: PMC2245921 Years of life lost to prison: racial and gender gradients in the United States of America Robert S Hogg, Eric F Druyts, Scott Burris, Ernest Drucker, and Steffanie A Strathdee PMCID: PMC2265700 Regulating compassion: an overview of Canada's federal medical cannabis policy and practice Philippe G Lucas PMCID: PMC2267789 Mother-infant consultation during drug treatment: Research and innovative clinical practice CF Zachariah Boukydis and Barry M Lester PMCID: PMC2275235 Seeing is believing: an educational outreach activity on disinfection practices Sarah-Amelie Mercure, Isabelle Tetu, Steeve Lamonde, Francoise Cote, and Guides de rue working group PMCID: PMC2265699 The acceptability and feasibility of peer worker support role in community based HCV treatment for injecting drug users Josephine Norman, Nick M Walsh, Janette Mugavin, Mark A Stoové, Jenny Kelsall, Kirk Austin, and Nick Lintzeris PMCID: PMC2291043 The barriers to smoking cessation in Swiss methadone and buprenorphine-maintained patients Victoria Wapf, Michael Schaub, Beat Klaeusler, Lukas Boesch, Rudolf Stohler, and Dominique Eich PMCID: PMC2276187 Prevalence and determinants of hepatitis C virus infection among female drug injecting sex workers in Glasgow Avril Taylor, Sharon J Hutchinson, Gail Gilchrist, Sheila Cameron, Susan Carr, and David J Goldberg PMCID: PMC2330038 Early exit: Estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment Alex Stevens, Polly Radcliffe, Melony Sanders, and Neil Hunt PMCID: PMC2391146 Awareness of the need for safe storage of Methadone at home is not improved by the use of protocols on recording information giving Annemarie Mullin, Rosanna J McAuley, Derrett J Watts, Ilana B Crome, and Roger N Bloor PMCID: PMC2390539 Harm reduction and equity of access to care for French prisoners: a review Laurent Michel, M Patrizia Carrieri, and Alex Wodak PMCID: PMC2430551 Switching to smokeless tobacco as a smoking cessation method: evidence from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey Brad Rodu and Carl V Phillips PMCID: PMC2427022 Hookah smoking and cancer: carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels in exclusive/ever hookah smokers Khan Mohammad Sajid, Kamal Chaouachi, and Rubaida Mahmood PMCID: PMC2438352 How high: Quantity as a predictor of cannabis-related problems Nicole Walden and Mitch Earleywine PMCID: PMC2438353 Preventing HIV transmission among Iranian prisoners: Initial support for providing education on the benefits of harm reduction practices Babak Eshrati, Rahim Taghizadeh Asl, Colleen Anne Dell, Parviz Afshar, Peggy Margaret E Millson, Mohammad Kamali, and John Weekes PMCID: PMC2443130 Distributing foil from needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) to promote transitions from heroin injecting to chasing: An evaluation Rachael Pizzey and Neil Hunt PMCID: PMC2518541 The effectiveness of behavioural interventions in the primary prevention of Hepatitis C amongst injecting drug users: a randomised controlled trial and lessons learned Mohammed Abou-Saleh, Paul Davis, Philip Rice, Ken Checinski, Colin Drummond, Douglas Maxwell, Christine Godfrey, Christopher John, Betsy Corrin, Christopher Tibbs, Adenekan Oyefeso, Marian de Ruiter, and Hamid Ghodse PMCID: PMC2531167 Virtual harm reduction efforts for Internet gambling: effects of deposit limits on actual Internet sports gambling behavior Anja Broda, Debi A LaPlante, Sarah E Nelson, Richard A LaBrie, Leslie B Bosworth, and Howard J Shaffer PMCID: PMC2519063 Stigma, social reciprocity and exclusion of HIV/AIDS patients with illicit drug histories: A study of Thai nurses' attitudes Kit Yee Chan, Mark A Stoové, and Daniel D Reidpath PMCID: PMC2553400 Predictors of HIV infection and prevalence for syphilis infection among injection drug users in China: Community-based surveys along major drug trafficking routes Yujiang Jia, Fan Lu, Gang Zeng, Xinhua Sun, Yan Xiao, Lin Lu, Wei Liu, Mingjian Ni, Shuquan Qu, Chunmei Li, Jianbo Liu, Pingsheng Wu, and Sten H Vermund PMCID: PMC2556669 A qualitative exploration of prescription opioid injection among street-based drug users in Toronto: behaviours, preferences and drug availability Michelle Firestone and Benedikt Fischer PMCID: PMC2577634 The perspectives of injection drug users regarding safer injecting education delivered through a supervised injecting facility Danya Fast, Will Small, Evan Wood, and Thomas Kerr PMCID: PMC2605439 Seroprevalence of select bloodborne pathogens and associated risk behaviors among injection drug users in the Paso del Norte region of the United States – Mexico border Joan P Baumbach, Lily N Foster, Mark Mueller, Michelle Firestone Cruz, Sonia Arbona, Sharon Melville, Rebeca Ramos, and Steffanie A Strathdee PMCID: PMC2615419 Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver Susan Boyd, Joy L Johnson, and Barbara Moffat PMCID: PMC2613138 A qualitative assessment of stakeholder perceptions and socio-cultural influences on the acceptability of harm reduction programs in Tijuana, Mexico Morgan M Philbin, Remedios Lozada, María Luisa Zúñiga, Andrea Mantsios, Patricia Case, Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, Carl A Latkin, and Steffanie A Strathdee PMCID: PMC2613137 Review Quantifying hepatitis C transmission risk using a new weighted scoring system for the Blood-Borne Virus Transmission Risk Assessment Questionnaire (BBV-TRAQ): Applications for community-based HCV surveillance, education and prevention Mark A Stoové, Craig L Fry, and Nicholas Lintzeris PMCID: PMC2387148 |
