Add to ORKGBackground: This study seeks to identify the prevalence of, and risk factors associated with, non-fatal overdose among people currently injecting drugs (PWID) in St. Petersburg (Russia) and in Kohtla-Järve (Estonia). Methods: Five hundred eighty-eight study participants in Kohtla-Järve (in 2012) and 811 in St. Petersburg (in 2012–2013) were recruited using respondent driven sampling for interviewing and HIV testing. Results: Three-quarters (76 %) of the current PWID were male. Participants from St. Petersburg were older (mean age 32.1 vs. 29.6 years, p < 0.0001) and reported a longer average duration of injecting drugs (mean duration: 13.3 vs. 10.9 years, p < 0.0001). Main drugs injected were opioids (fentanyl in Kohtla-Järve, heroin ...
Background: There is a lack of international research on suicide by drug overdose as a preventable s...
BACKGROUND: Following a heroin shortage, fentanyl and 3-methylfentanyl, known as "China White" and "...
Background: The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of injecting drug use and associa...
Introduction: Drug law enforcement is part of the HIV risk environment among people who inject drugs...
Overdoses and HIV infection are common among Russians who inject drugs, yet risk factors have not be...
Heroin trafficking and consumption has increased steadily over the past decade in Tanza-nia, but lim...
Objective Data from Ukraine on risk factors for HIV acquisition are limited. We describe the charact...
OBJECTIVE: To measure HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among recent initiates into drug in...
Background: We aimed to undertake a global systematic review of the prevalence of injecting, key dru...
Background: Hai Phong, located in northern Vietnam, has become a high HIV prevalence province among ...
The purpose of the 2009 survey among injecting drug users (IDUs) in St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg ...
ween 167 to 315 million people aged 15–64 (3.6 %- 6.9% of the world’s population in that age group) ...
Background. People who inject drugs (PWID) have elevated risk for infectious diseases, psychiatric d...
Objectives: Data on the extent of drug use and associated HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B infection...
Background: Injection drug users represent the largest proportion of all HIV reported cases in Viet ...
Background: There is a lack of international research on suicide by drug overdose as a preventable s...
BACKGROUND: Following a heroin shortage, fentanyl and 3-methylfentanyl, known as "China White" and "...
Background: The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of injecting drug use and associa...
Introduction: Drug law enforcement is part of the HIV risk environment among people who inject drugs...
Overdoses and HIV infection are common among Russians who inject drugs, yet risk factors have not be...
Heroin trafficking and consumption has increased steadily over the past decade in Tanza-nia, but lim...
Objective Data from Ukraine on risk factors for HIV acquisition are limited. We describe the charact...
OBJECTIVE: To measure HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among recent initiates into drug in...
Background: We aimed to undertake a global systematic review of the prevalence of injecting, key dru...
Background: Hai Phong, located in northern Vietnam, has become a high HIV prevalence province among ...
The purpose of the 2009 survey among injecting drug users (IDUs) in St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg ...
ween 167 to 315 million people aged 15–64 (3.6 %- 6.9% of the world’s population in that age group) ...
Background. People who inject drugs (PWID) have elevated risk for infectious diseases, psychiatric d...
Objectives: Data on the extent of drug use and associated HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B infection...
Background: Injection drug users represent the largest proportion of all HIV reported cases in Viet ...
Background: There is a lack of international research on suicide by drug overdose as a preventable s...
BACKGROUND: Following a heroin shortage, fentanyl and 3-methylfentanyl, known as "China White" and "...
Background: The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of injecting drug use and associa...