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• A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Psychosocial Interventions to Reduce Drug and Sexual Blood Borne Virus Risk Behaviours Among People Who Inject Drugs  Academic Article
• A comparison of HIV risk between women and men who inject drugs  Academic Article
• A cross-sectional study describing factors associated with utilisation of GP services by a cohort of people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• A cross-sectional study of emergency department visits by people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• A micro-environmental intervention to reduce the harms associated with drug-related overdose: Evidence from the evaluation of Vancouver's safer injection facility  Academic Article
• A primary healthcare clinic in a needle syringe program may contribute to HIV prevention by early detection of incident HIV in an injecting drug user [Letter]  Letter
• A prospective cohort study of hospital separations among people who inject drugs in Australia: 2008–2013  Academic Article
• A response to: Self-reported and actual hepatitis C virus infection status  Academic Article
• A study protocol for the N-ICE trial: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) as a pharmacotherapy for methamphetamine ("ice") dependence  Academic Article
• Acceptability of Prison-Based Take-Home Naloxone Programmes Among a Cohort of Incarcerated Men with a History of Regular Injecting Drug Use  Academic Article
• An evaluation of a heroin overdose prevention and education campaign  Academic Article
• An urgent need to scale-up injecting drug harm reduction services in Tanzania: Prevalence of blood-borne viruses among drug users in Temeke District, Dar-es-Salaam, 2011  Academic Article
• Analysis of time of drug use according to needle and syringe program operating hours in Melbourne, Australia: Effects on individual-level needle and syringe coverage  Academic Article
• Are People Who Inject Drugs Frequent Users of Emergency Department Services? A Cohort Study (2008–2013)  Academic Article
• Are primary health care centres that target injecting drug users attracting and serving the clients they are designed for? A case study from Sydney, Australia  Academic Article
• Are there differences in individual-level needle and syringe coverage across Australian jurisdictions related to program policy? A preliminary analysis  Academic Article
• Assessing individual-level needle and syringe coverage parameters and the measurement of coverage in Melbourne, Australia: methods and impacts  Academic Article
• Assessing the cost-effectiveness of treating chronic hepatitis C virus in people who inject drugs in Australia  Academic Article
• Attitudes of Australian Heroin Users to Peer Distribution of Naloxone for Heroin Overdose: Perspectives on Intranasal Administration  Academic Article
• Beyond neoclassical economics: Social process, agency and the maintenance of order in an Australian illicit drug marketplace  Academic Article
• Blood donation amongst people who inject drugs in Australia: research supporting policy change  Academic Article
• Blood-borne virus transmission in an urban, culturally diverse neighbourhood: results from a cross-sectional bio-behavioural survey using innovative outreach methods in a hard-to-reach population  Academic Article
• Buprenorphine injection in Melbourne, Australia-an update  Academic Article
• Can differences in the type, nature or amount of polysubstance use explain the increased risk of non-fatal overdose among psychologically distressed people who inject drugs?  Academic Article
• Cessation of injecting drug use: The effects of health service utilisation, drug use and demographic factors  Academic Article
• Change in hepatitis C virus genotype in injecting drug users  Academic Article
• Characterising the policy influence of peer-based drug user organisations in the context of hepatitis C elimination  Academic Article
• Client satisfaction and risk behaviours of the users of syringe dispensing machines: a pilot study  Academic Article
• Commentary on Kerret al. (2013): Advertising high-potency heroin  Editorial Article
• Community‐based, point‐of‐care hepatitis C testing: perspectives and preferences of people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• Comparing Characteristics of Early-Onset Injection Drug Users to Those With Late-Onset Injection in Kermanshah, Iran  Academic Article
• Comparing Injecting Risk Behaviors of Long-Term Injectors with New Injectors in Tehran, Iran  Academic Article
• Concordance between self-reported and actual hepatitis C virus infection status in a cohort of people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• Contemporary cocaine use patterns and associated harms in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia  Academic Article
• Correlates of property crime in a cohort of recently released prisoners with a history of injecting drug use  Academic Article
• Determinants of HIV risk among men who have homosexual sex and inject drugs  Academic Article
• Development of a nurse-led primary healthcare service for injecting drug users in inner-city Sydney  Academic Article
• Differences in polysubstance use patterns and drug-related outcomes between people who inject drugs receiving and not receiving opioid substitution therapies  Academic Article
• Differences in the social networks of ethnic Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese injecting drug users and their implications for blood-borne virus transmission  Academic Article
• Does informing people who inject drugs of their hepatitis C status influence their injecting behaviour? Analysis of the Networks II study  Academic Article
• Drug, sex and sociality: Factors associated with the recent sharing of injecting equipment among gay and bisexual men in Australia  Academic Article
• Dynamic compartmental model of trends in Australian drug use  Academic Article
• Effects of a sustained heroin shortage in three Australian States  Academic Article
• Elevated reporting of unprotected anal intercourse and injecting drug use but no difference in HIV prevalence among Indigenous Australian men who have sex with men compared with their Anglo-Australian peers  Academic Article
• Enabling environments and the reduction of drug-related harm: re-framing Australian policy and practice  Academic Article
• Engagement, reciprocity and advocacy: ethical harm reduction practice in research with injecting drug users  Academic Article
• Establishing the Melbourne injecting drug user cohort study (MIX): rationale, methods, and baseline and twelve-month follow-up results  Academic Article
• Experiences of and attitudes toward injecting drug use among marginalized African migrant and refugee youth in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Experiences of liver health related uncertainty and self-reported stress among people who inject drugs living with hepatitis C virus: a qualitative study  Academic Article
• Factors Influencing a Self-Limiting HIV Outbreak Among Ethnic Vietnamese Injecting Drug Users in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Factors associated with professional support access among a prospective cohort of methamphetamine users  Academic Article
• For love or money? An exploratory study of why injecting drug users participate in research  Academic Article
• Frequent emergency department presentations among people who inject drugs: a record linkage study  Academic Article
• Frequent experience of discrimination among people who inject drugs: Links with health and wellbeing  Academic Article
• From initiating injecting drug use to regular injecting: Retrospective survival analysis of injecting progression within a sample of people who inject drugs regularly  Academic Article
• Gender, culture and harm: an exploratory study of female heroin users of Vietnamese ethnicity  Academic Article
• Geo-spatial analysis of individual-level needle and syringe coverage in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Governing street-based injecting drug users: a critique of heroin overdose prevention in Australia  Academic Article
• HIV among injecting drug users of Indo‐Chinese ethnicity in Victoria  Academic Article
• HIV risk perception and risky behavior among people who inject drugs in Kermanshah, Western Iran  Academic Article
• Harm reduction workers and the challenge of engaging couples who inject drugs in hepatitis C prevention  Academic Article
• Healthcare utilisation and disclosure of injecting drug use among clients of Australia's needle and syringe programs  Academic Article
• Hepatitis B virus exposure and vaccination in a cohort of people who inject drugs: What has been the impact of targeted free vaccination?  Academic Article
• Hepatitis C Virus Phylogenetic Clustering Is Associated with the Social-Injecting Network in a Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs  Academic Article
• Hepatitis C transmission and treatment as prevention - The role of the injecting network  Academic Article
• Hepatitis C — Role of Perinatal Transmission  Academic Article
• Heroin–gel capsule cocktails and groin injecting practices among ethnic Vietnamese in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• High Rates of Hepatitis C Virus Reinfection and Spontaneous Clearance of Reinfection in People Who Inject Drugs: A Prospective Cohort Study  Academic Article
• How do drug market changes affect characteristics of injecting initiation and subsequent patterns of drug use? Findings from a cohort of regular heroin and methamphetamine injectors in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• How does the use of multiple needles/syringes per injecting episode impact on the measurement of individual level needle and syringe program coverage?  Academic Article
• Illicit and injecting drug use among Indigenous young people in urban, regional and remote Australia  Academic Article
• Impact of HIV status notification on risk behaviors among men who inject drugs in Kermanshah, west of Iran  Academic Article
• Improved response by peers after witnessed heroin overdose in Melbourne  Academic Article
• Incarceration history and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Increasing prevalence of HIV, and persistent high-risk behaviours among drug users in Bangladesh: need for a comprehensive harm reduction programme  Academic Article
• Individual-level needle and syringe coverage in Melbourne, Australia: a longitudinal, descriptive analysis  Academic Article
• Infection with HIV and hepatitis C virus among injecting drug users in a prevention setting: retrospective cohort study  Academic Article
• Injecting buprenorphine-naloxone film: Findings from an explorative qualitative study  Academic Article
• Injecting drug use among gay and bisexual men in Sydney: Prevalence and associations with sexual risk practices and HIV and hepatitis C infection  Academic Article
• Injecting drug use and related health behaviours in a small case series of East African migrants in Melbourne [Letter]  Letter
• Injecting drug use continues in older drug users too  Letter
• Injecting drug use in low and middle-income countries: Opportunities to improve care and prevent harm  Academic Article
• Injecting-related injury and disease among clients of a supervised injecting facility  Academic Article
• Injection Drug Users’ Access to a Supervised Injection Facility in Vancouver, Canada: The Influence of Operating Policies and Local Drug Culture  Academic Article
• Injection drug network characteristics as a predictor of injection behaviour  Academic Article
• Integrating enhanced hepatitis C testing and counselling in research  Academic Article
• Interpellating recovery: The politics of ‘identity’ in recovery-focused treatment  Academic Article
• It stops with us: Peer responses increase availability of sterile injecting equipment [Editorial]  Comment
• Jugular venipuncture and other innovative approaches to phlebotomy among people who inject drugs  Comment
• Knowledge of naloxone and take-home naloxone programs among a sample of people who inject drugs in Australia: variations across capital cities  Academic Article
• Limits to Relying on Expert Information: The Delphi Technique in a Study of Ethnic Vietnamese Injection Drug Users in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Linkage into specialist hepatitis C treatment services of injecting drug users attending a needle syringe program-based primary healthcare centre  Academic Article
• Longitudinal analysis of change in individual-level needle and syringe coverage amongst a cohort of people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Longitudinal changes in personal wellbeing in a cohort of people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• Longitudinal changes in psychological distress in a cohort of people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Maintaining the healthy body: Blood management and hepatitis C prevention among men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs  Academic Article
• Measures of harm reduction service provision for people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• Measuring individual-level needle and syringe coverage among people who inject drugs in Myanmar  Academic Article
• Methamphetamine use among gay and bisexual men in Australia: Trends in recent and regular use from the Gay Community Periodic Surveys  Academic Article
• Missed Opportunities for Hepatitis C Testing and Other Opportunistic Health Care  Letter
• Mobile safe injecting facilities in Barcelona and Berlin  Academic Article
• Modelling antiviral treatment to prevent hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs in Victoria, Australia  Academic Article
• Molecular Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus in a Social Network of Injection Drug Users  Academic Article
• Mortality among injecting drug users in Melbourne: A 16-year follow-up of the Victorian Injecting Cohort Study (VICS)  Academic Article
• Mortality and cause of death in a cohort of people who had ever injected drugs in Glasgow: 1982–2012  Academic Article
• Mortality in the Melbourne injecting drug user cohort study (MIX)  Academic Article
• Multiply disadvantaged: Health and service utilisation factors faced by homeless injecting drug consumers in Australia  Academic Article
• Naloxone distribution: Remembering hepatitis C transmission as an issue [5]  Academic Article
• Narratives of young men with injecting drug use histories leaving adult prison  Academic Article
• Needles and syringes for IVDUs  Academic Article
• Nurse practitioners: an evaluation of the extended role of nurses at the Kirketon Road Centre in Sydney, Australia.  Academic Article
• Older injectors: An emerging and under-recognised public health issue  Academic Article
• Opioid dependent patients’ experiences of and attitudes towards having their injecting sites examined  Academic Article
• Opportunistic and continuing health care for injecting drug users from a nurse-run needle syringe program-based primary health-care clinic  Letter
• Oral health-related quality of life among an Australian sample of people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• Outcomes of treatment for hepatitis C in primary care compared to hospital-based care: a randomised controlled trial in people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• Overdose deaths following previous non-fatal heroin overdose: Record linkage of ambulance attendance and death registry data  Academic Article
• Patterns of HIV Risks and Related Factors among People Who Inject Drugs in Kermanshah, Iran: A Latent Class Analysis  Academic Article
• Patterns of, and Factors Associated With, Illicit Pharmaceutical Opioid Analgesic Use in a Prospective Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Personality differences between drug injectors and non-injectors among substance-dependent patients in substitution treatment  Academic Article
• Point-of-care Hepatitis C virus testing and linkage to treatment in an Australian inner-city emergency department  Academic Article
• Practices of partnership: Negotiated safety among couples who inject drugs  Academic Article
• Prevalence and correlates of recent injecting drug use among gay and bisexual men in Australia: results from the FLUX study  Academic Article
• Prevalence of diversion and injection of methadone and buprenorphine among clients receiving opioid treatment at community pharmacies in New South Wales, Australia  Academic Article
• Prevalence, incidence and risk factors for hepatitis C in homosexual men: data from two cohorts of HIV-negative and HIV-positive men in Sydney, Australia  Academic Article
• Prevalences and correlates of non-viral injecting-related injuries and diseases in a convenience sample of Australian injecting drug users  Academic Article
• Preventing blood-borne virus infection in people who inject drugs in the UK: systematic review, stakeholder interviews, psychosocial intervention development and feasibility randomised controlled trial  Academic Article
• Primary healthcare outlets that target injecting drug users: Opportunity to make services accessible and acceptable to the target group  Comment
• Privileging pleasure: Temazepam injection in a heroin marketplace  Academic Article
• Public opinion on needle and syringe programmes: avoiding assumptions for policy and practice  Academic Article
• Qualitative evaluation of a peer-based needle syringe programme in Vietnam  Academic Article
• Recognition of Hepatitis C Virus Coinfection in HIV-Positive Injecting Drug Users in Asia  Academic Article
• Response to Kwon et al. “Estimating the number of people who inject drugs and syringe coverage in Australia, 2005–2016”  Academic Article
• Risk behaviours of young Indo-Chinese injecting drug users in Sydney and Melbourne  Academic Article
• Salvaging a prison needle and syringe program trial in Australia requires leadership and respect for evidence  Academic Article
• Selling syringes to injecting drug users: a study of five pharmacies in Hanoi, Vietnam  Academic Article
• Severe vein damage caused by Temezepam injecting  Academic Article
• Sex Discrepancies in the Protective Effect of Opioid Agonist Therapy on Incident Hepatitis C Infection  Academic Article
• Sexually transmitted infections, sexual risk behaviours and perceived barriers to safe sex among drug users  Academic Article
• Should sterile needle and syringe wastage be included within individual-level needle and syringe coverage measures?  Editorial Article
• Social inclusion and hepatitis C: exploring new possibilities for prevention  Academic Article
• Staff Perceptions of Syringe Dispensing Machines in Australia: A Pilot Study  Academic Article
• Syringe Stockpiling by Persons Who Inject Drugs: An Evaluation of Current Measures for Needle and Syringe Program Coverage  Academic Article
• The Association between Intentional Overdose and Same-Sex Sexual Intercourse in a Cohort of People who Inject Drugs in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• The Edinburgh cohort of HIV-positive injecting drug users at 10 years after infection  Academic Article
• The Effect of Female Sex on Hepatitis C Incidence Among People Who Inject Drugs: Results From the International Multicohort InC3 Collaborative  Academic Article
• The Potential Reach of Opioid Substitution Settings to Deliver HCV Care to People Who Inject Drugs in Australia  Academic Article
• The Prison and Transition Health (PATH) Cohort Study: Study Protocol and Baseline Characteristics of a Cohort of Men with a History of Injecting Drug Use Leaving Prison in Australia  Academic Article
• The acceptability and feasibility of a brief psychosocial intervention to reduce blood-borne virus risk behaviours among people who inject drugs: A randomised control feasibility trial of a psychosocial intervention (the PROTECT study) versus treatment as usual  Academic Article
• The accessibility, acceptability, health impact and cost implications of primary healthcare outlets that target injecting drug users: A narrative synthesis of literature  Academic Article
• The association between experiencing discrimination and physical and mental health among PWID  Academic Article
• The diversion and injection of a buprenorphine-naloxone soluble film formulation  Academic Article
• The economic burden to the public health system of treating non-viral injecting-related injury and disease in Australia (a cost of illness analysis)  Academic Article
• The effect of on-site and outreach-based needle and syringe programs in people who inject drugs in Kermanshah, Iran  Academic Article
• The effectiveness and safety of syringe vending machines as a component of needle syringe programmes in community settings  Academic Article
• The effects of needle-sharing and opioid substitution therapy on incidence of hepatitis C virus infection and reinfection in people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• The impact of Victoria's real time prescription monitoring system (SafeScript) on a cohort of people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• The intimate relationship as a site of social protection: Partnerships between people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• The missing mass of morality: A new fitpack design for hepatitis C prevention in sexual partnerships  Academic Article
• The oral health of street-recruited injecting drug users: prevalence and correlates of problems  Academic Article
• The prevalence and risk behaviours associated with the transmission of blood-borne viruses among ethnic-Vietnamese injecting drug users  Academic Article
• The relationship between age and risky injecting behaviours among a sample of Australian people who inject drugs  Academic Article
• The relationship between alcohol use and injecting drug use: Impacts on health, crime and wellbeing  Academic Article
• The reliability of sensitive information provided by injecting drug users in a clinical setting: clinician-administered versus audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI)  Academic Article
• The self-reported personal wellbeing of a sample of Australian injecting drug users  Academic Article
• The use of alprazolam by people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Transient changes in behaviour lead to heroin overdose: results from a case-crossover study of non-fatal overdose  Academic Article
• Understanding HIV and hepatitis C virus risk among incarcerated young men with histories of injecting drug use  Letter
• Understanding decisions made about hepatitis C treatment by couples who inject drugs  Academic Article
• Was this a result you were expecting?  Academic Article
• Women in contact with Sydney's gay and lesbian community: Sexual identity, practice and HIV risks  Academic Article
• Working together: Expanding the availability of naloxone for peer administration to prevent opioid overdose deaths in the Australian Capital Territory and beyond  Academic Article
• Young people at risk of transitioning to injecting drug use in Sydney, Australia: social disadvantage and other correlates of higher levels of exposure to injecting  Academic Article
• ‘Affording’ new approaches to couples who inject drugs: A novel fitpack design for hepatitis C prevention  Academic Article
• ‘Ice epidemic’? Trends in methamphetamine use from three Victorian surveillance systems  Letter
• ‘It’s Your Life!’: Injecting Drug Users, Individual Responsibility and Hepatitis C Prevention  Academic Article
• ‘Workers’, ‘clients’ and the struggle over needs: Understanding encounters between service providers and injecting drug users in an Australian city  Academic Article
• “Don’t think I’m going to leave you over it”: Accounts of changing hepatitis C status among couples who inject drugs  Academic Article
• “I'm obviously not dying so it's not something I need to sort out today”: Considering hepatitis C treatment in the era of direct acting antivirals  Academic Article
• “Just not all ice users do that”: investigating perceptions and potential harms of Australia’s Ice Destroys Lives campaign in two studies  Academic Article