Transition from injecting opioids to smoking fentanyl in San Francisco, California

Incidence of HIV and HCV in people who inject drugs: a systematic and meta-analysis review protocol

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Increasing presence of xylazine in heroin and/or fentanyl deaths, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010–2019

(2021) Jewell Johnson et al.   INJURY PREVENTION

Trends and Geographic Patterns in Drug and Synthetic Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2019

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Consumer discernment of fentanyl in illicit opioids confirmed by fentanyl test strips: Lessons from a syringe services program in North Carolina

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COPD and asthma in patients with opioid dependency: a cross-sectional study in primary care

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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Global Prevalence of HBsAg and HIV and HCV Antibodies among People Who Inject Drugs and Female Sex Workers

(2020) Roya Rashti et al.   Pathogens

Detecting fentanyl using point-of-care drug checking technologies: A validation study

(2020) Lianping Ti et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Opioid withdrawal symptoms, frequency, and pain characteristics as correlates of health risk among people who inject drugs

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Evaluation of an Unsanctioned Safe Consumption Site in the United States

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Use of Population-Based Surveys for Estimating the Population Size of Persons Who Inject Drugs in the United States

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Understanding the Intersection of Behavioral Risk and Social Determinants of Health and the Impact on an Outbreak of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in Philadelphia

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National Public Health Burden Estimates of Endocarditis and Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections Related to Injection Drug Use: A Review

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Heroin Smoking Is Not Common in the United States

(2019) Daniel Ciccarone   JAMA Neurology

Prevalence of respiratory conditions among people who use illicit opioids: a systematic review

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Geographic Trends, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes of Infective Endocarditis Associated With Drug Abuse in the United States From 2002 to 2016

(2019) Amer N. Kadri et al.   Journal of the American Heart Association

Comparing performance between log-binomial and robust Poisson regression models for estimating risk ratios under model misspecification

(2018) Wansu Chen et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

The Emerging Role of Inhaled Heroin in the Opioid Epidemic

(2018) Vilakshan Alambyan et al.   JAMA Neurology

Screening Heroin Smokers attending Community Drug Services for COPD

(2018) Hassan Burhan et al.   CHEST

Cold Preparation of Heroin in a Black Tar Market

(2017) Alexis M. Roth et al.   SUBSTANCE USE & MISUSE

Global prevalence of injecting drug use and sociodemographic characteristics and prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV in people who inject drugs: a multistage systematic review

(2017) Louisa Degenhardt et al.   Lancet Global Health

Estimating the Number of Persons Who Inject Drugs in the United States by Meta-Analysis to Calculate National Rates of HIV and Hepatitis C Virus Infections

(2014) Amy Lansky et al.   PLoS One

Trends in the Population Prevalence of People Who Inject Drugs in US Metropolitan Areas 1992–2007

(2013) Barbara Tempalski et al.   PLoS One

‘Chasing the Dragon’

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Reduction in overdose mortality after the opening of North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility: a retrospective population-based study

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Comparing Respondent-Driven Sampling and Targeted Sampling Methods of Recruiting Injection Drug Users in San Francisco

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