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Significant decrease in injection risk behaviours among participants in a needle exchange programme

Martin KåbergDepartment of Medicine Huddinge, Division of Infection and Dermatology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Stockholm Needle Exchange, Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders, Stockholm, Sweden; Correspondence[email protected]
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Niklas KarlssonDepartment of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-0523-5397View further author information
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Andrea DiscacciatiUnit of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; View further author information
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Katarina WidgrenDepartment of Medicine Huddinge, Division of Infection and Dermatology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden; View further author information
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Ola WeilandDepartment of Medicine Huddinge, Division of Infection and Dermatology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden; View further author information
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Anna Mia EkströmDepartment of Medicine Huddinge, Division of Infection and Dermatology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-3912-1171View further author information
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Anders HammarbergCentre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders, Stockholm Health Care Services, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, SwedenORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-5227View further author information
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Pages 336-346 | Received 25 Jul 2019, Accepted 09 Dec 2019, Published online: 19 Feb 2020

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R. Turner, D. Barrett, F. Petersson & M. Kåberg. (2023) Legal Minors Who Inject: Differences in Socio-Demographics and Treatment Needs Compared to Adults in a Swedish National Sample of People with Injecting Drug Use. Substance Use & Misuse 58:12, pages 1473-1482.
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Steven L. Proctor, Jared Lipsey & Khary K. Rigg. (2022) The insanity of addiction treatment in America. Addiction Research & Theory 30:4, pages 231-236.
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Ricky N. Bluthenthal. (2020) Needle exchange effectiveness in the midst of multiple injection-related epidemics: commentary on Kåberg et al. . Infectious Diseases 52:5, pages 347-349.
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Moa Andresen Bergström, Maria E. Andersson & Simon B. Larsson. (2023) Detection of drugs and hepatitis C virus in used syringes from a needle exchange in Gothenburg, Sweden. Drug Testing and Analysis.
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E. Kågström, A. Lannergård, J. El Khosht, P. Lörelius, J. Månflod & S. Strömdahl. (2023) Prevalence, risk factors, treatment uptake and treatment outcome of hepatitis C virus in people who inject drugs at the needle and syringe program in Uppsala, Sweden. Harm Reduction Journal 20:1.
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E. Holmén, A. Hammarberg, M. Kåberg & J Storbjörk. (2023) Take-Home Naloxone and risk management from the perspective of people who survived an opioid overdose in Stockholm — An analysis informed by drug, set and setting. International Journal of Drug Policy 115, pages 104021.
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Elin Holmén, Anna Warnqvist & Martin Kåberg. (2023) Sweden’s first Take-Home Naloxone program: participant characteristics, dose endpoints and predictors for overdose reversals. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 18:1.
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Martin Kåberg, Sofie Larsson, Jakob Bergström & Anders Hammarberg. (2022) Quality-adjusted life years among people who inject drugs in a needle syringe program in Sweden. Quality of Life Research 32:1, pages 197-207.
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Analisa Packham. (2022) Syringe exchange programs and harm reduction: New evidence in the wake of the opioid epidemic. Journal of Public Economics 215, pages 104733.
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K. Lindqvist, C. Wallmofeldt, E. Holmén, A. Hammarberg & M. Kåberg. (2021) Health literacy and changes in pattern of drug use among participants at the Stockholm Needle Exchange Program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Harm Reduction Journal 18:1.
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Tyler S. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Feaster, Hardik Patel, David W. Forrest & Hansel E. Tookes. (2021) Reduction in injection risk behaviors after implementation of a syringe services program, Miami, Florida. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 127, pages 108344.
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Niklas Karlsson, Torsten Berglund, Anna Mia Ekström, Anders Hammarberg & Tuukka Tammi. (2020) Could 30 years of political controversy on needle exchange programmes in Sweden contribute to scaling-up harm reduction services in the world?. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 38:1, pages 66-88.
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Malin Värmå Falk, Susanne Strömdahl, Anna Mia Ekström, Martin Kåberg, Niklas Karlsson, Helena Dahlborn & Anders Hammarberg. (2020) A qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to participate in a needle exchange program for women who inject drugs. Harm Reduction Journal 17:1.
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