Many Canadian cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose epidemics among injection drug users (IDU). These health concerns have recently been exacerbated by the increasing availability and use of methamphetamine. The challenges of reducing health-related harms among IDU have led to an increased recognition that strategies to prevent initiation into injection drug use must r...

OBJECTIVES We investigated individual- and neighborhood-level factors associated with adolescent initiation of injection drug use. METHODS Injection drug users (IDUs) who had been injecting 2 to 5 years underwent HIV testing and completed a sociobehavioral risk survey. Modeling techniques accounting for intraneighborhood correlations were used in data analyses. RESULTS Adolescent-initiating...

BACKGROUND Inadvertent intra-arterial injection of illicit substances is a known complication of injection drug use and can lead to severe complications, including infection, ischemia and compartment syndrome. Identifying complications of intra-arterial injection can be difficult, as clinical manifestations overlap with other more common conditions such as cellulitis and soft tissue infection, ...

ENSURING THAT INJECTION drug users who cannot or will not stop injecting have access to sterile syringes is an important part of a comprehensive approach to reducing the transmission of viral and bacterial infections associated with injection drug use. I Seen purely in terms of public health science and prevention practice, ensuring syringe access for injection drug users is clearly an appropri...

background: infections include soft tissue infections are notable reason for hospital admission among idus, owing to unsterile injection techniques and equipment, contamination of drugs with organisms, and poor hygiene. in present case report a patient with profound limb infection is introduced. case: a 32 years old man was transferred to the emergency department. he was idu with iranian for 3 ...

Article history: Received 25 October 2016 Received in revised form 15 January 2017 Accepted 26 January 2017 Available online 30 January 2017 transmission method in Puerto Rico is injection drug use—42% of male HIV cases are attributed to injection drug use, exactly double that of the U.S. as a whole which attributes 21% of male HIV cases to injection drug use. HCV has a prevalence among the gen...