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Barriers to practicing risk reduction strategies among people who inject drugs

Pages 62-68 | Received 02 Mar 2015, Accepted 29 Jun 2015, Published online: 21 Jul 2015

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Dinah Applewhite, Susan Regan, Karen Donelan, Wendy L. Macias-Konstantopoulos, Dawn Williamson, Laura G. Kehoe, Christopher Shaw & Sarah E. Wakeman. (2023) Access to safer injection equipment among people who inject drugs utilizing medical services in an urban hospital in the United States. Addiction Research & Theory 31:5, pages 321-327.
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Simeon D. Kimmel, Kristina T. Phillips, Bradley J. Anderson & Michael D. Stein. (2022) Characteristics associated with motivation to stop substance use and improve skin and needle hygiene among hospitalized patients who inject drugs. Substance Abuse 43:1, pages 878-883.
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Anees Bahji, Bobby Yanagawa & Wiplove Lamba. (2020) Harm Reduction for Injection Drug Users with Infective Endocarditis: A Systematic Review. Canadian Journal of Addiction 11:2, pages 13-23.
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Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Kelsey Simpson, Rachel Carmen Ceasar, Johnathan Zhao, Lynn Wenger & Alex H. Kral. (2020) Opioid withdrawal symptoms, frequency, and pain characteristics as correlates of health risk among people who inject drugs. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 211, pages 107932.
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Daisy Gibbs, Amy Peacock, Daniel O'Keefe, Kerryn Butler, Raimondo Bruno, Simon Lenton, Lucinda Burns & Sarah Larney. (2019) Use of alcohol swabs to clean injecting sites among people who regularly inject drugs in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review 39:1, pages 83-92.
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Stephen M. Davis, Alfgeir L. Kristjansson, Danielle Davidov, Keith Zullig, Adam Baus & Melanie Fisher. (2019) Barriers to using new needles encountered by rural Appalachian people who inject drugs: implications for needle exchange. Harm Reduction Journal 16:1.
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Kent R. Kerley, Rashaan A. DeShay & Heith Copes. (2018) Harm Reduction Strategies and Disinhibitors Among Women Who Use Heroin. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 63:8, pages 1289-1305.
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