Women injecting drug users in London: The extent and nature of their contact with drug and health services

References

• Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. AIDS and Drug Misuse, Part One. Department of Health and Social Security, London 1988
   Google Scholar
• Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. AIDS and Drug Misuse Part Two. Department of Health, London 1989
   Google Scholar
• Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. AIDS and Drug Misuse: Update. Department of Health, London 1993
   Google Scholar
• Hartnoll R. Research and the help-seeking process. Br J Addict 1992; 87: 429–437
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Stimson GV. AIDS and injecting drug use in the United Kingdom, 1987–1993: the policy response and the prevention of the epidemic. Soc Sci Med 1995; 41: 699–716
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Department of Health. The Task Force to review services for drug misusers. Report of an independent review of drug treatment services in England. Department of Health, London 1996
   Google Scholar
• Jones, M, et al, Bolton, K, Edmond, I. Problem drug use reported by services in Greater London. Thames Regional Health Authorities' Drug Misuse Databases, London 1995
   Google Scholar
• Hickman M, Sutcliffe H, Sondhi A, Stimson GV. Validation of a regional drug misuse database: implications for future policy and surveillance of problem drug use in the UK. Br Med J 1997; 315: 381–381
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Home Office (1996) Statistical Bulletin, Drug Misuse Statistics, 15/96. HMSO, London
   Google Scholar
• Wadsworth J, Hickman M, Johnson AM, Wellings K, Field J. Geographical variation in sexual behaviour in Britain: implications for sexually transmitted disease epidemiology and sexual health promotion. AIDS 1996; 10: 193–199
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• London Drugs and Alcohol Women's Network. Survey of facilities for women using drugs (including alcohol) in London. Drug and Alcohol Women Nationally, London 1984
   Google Scholar
• Drugs and Alcohol Women's Network. When a creche is not enough. A survey of drug and alcohol services for women. Drugs and Alcohol Women's network, GLASS, London 1994
   Google Scholar
• Copeland J, Hall W. A comparison of women seeking drug and alcohol treatment in a specialist women's and two traditional mixed sex treatment services. Client characteristics and treatment outcome. Drug Alcohol Depend 1993; 32: 81–92
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Copeland J, Hall W. A comparison of women seeking drug and alcohol treatment in a specialist women's and two traditional mixed sex treatment services. Br J Addict 1992; 87: 65–74
   Google Scholar
• Swift W, Copeland J. Treatment needs and experiences of Australian women with alcohol and other drug-related problems. Drug Alcohol Depend 1996; 40: 211–219
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Szuster R, Rich LL, Chung A, Bisconer SW. Treatment retention in women's residential chemical dependency treatment: the effect of admission with children. Substance Use and Misuse 1996; 31: 8–8
   Google Scholar
• Allan CA. Characteristics and help-seeking patterns of attenders at a community-based voluntary agency and an alcohol and drug treatment unit. Br J Addict 1989; 84: 73–80
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Thom B, Edmundson K. Women, family and drugs: women talking. Report of a Workshop. Commonwealth Secretariat, London 1989
   Google Scholar
• Rosenbaum M. Women on heroin. Rutgers University Press, Brunswick, New Jersey 1981
   Google Scholar
• Suffet F, Brotman R. Female drug use: some observations. Int J Addict 1976; 11: 19–33
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Taylor A. Women drug users: an ethnography of a female injecting community. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993
   Google Scholar
• Barnard MA. Needle sharing in context: patterns of sharing among men and women injectors and HIV risks. Addiction 1993; 88: 805–812
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McKeganey N, Barnard MA. AIDS, drugs, and sexual risk: lives in the balance. Oxford University Press, Buckingham 1992
   Google Scholar
• Klee H. HIV risks for women drug injectors: heroin and amphetamine users compared. Addiction 1993; 88: 1055–1062
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gossop M, Griffiths P, Strang J. Sex differences in patterns of drug taking behaviour. A study at a London Community Drug Team. Br J Psychiatry 1994; 164: 101–104
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Powis B, Griffiths P, Gossop M, Strang J. The Difference between male and female drug users: community samples of heroin and cocaine users compared. Substance Use Misuse 1996; 31: 529–543
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thom B. Sex differences in help-seeking for alcohol problems—1. The barriers to help-seeking. Br J Addict 1986; 81: 777–788
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Gossop M, Green L, Phillips G, Bradley B. Factors predicting outcome among opiate addicts after treatment. Br J Clin Psychol 1990; 29: 209–216
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hunter GM, Donoghoe MC, Stimson GV, Rhodes T, Chalmers C. Changes in the injecting risk behaviour of injecting drug users in London, 1990–1993. AIDS 1995; 9: 493–501
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ryan CF, White JM. Health status at entry to methadone maintenance treatment using the SF-36 health survey questionnaire. Addiction 1996; 91(1)39–45
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rosenbaum M, Murphy S. Not the picture of health: women on methadone. J Psychoact Drugs 1987; 19(2)217–225
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Webster IM, Waddy N, Jenkins LV, Lai L. Health status of a group of narcotic addicts in a methadone treatment programme. Med J Aust 1977; 2: 485–491
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reno RR, Aiken LS. Life activities and life quality of heroin addict in and out of methadone treatment. Int J Addict 1993; 28: 211–232
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bucknall AB, Robertson JR, Foster K. Medical facilitics used by heroin users. Br Med J 1986; 293: 1215–1216
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glanz A, Taylor C. Findings of a national survey of the role of general practitioners in the treatment of opiate misuse: extent of contact with opiate misusers. Br Med J 1986; 293: 427–430
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Datt N, Feinmann C. Providing health care for drug users. Br J Addict 1990; 85: 1571–1575
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Briscoe M. Why do people go to the doctor? Sex differences in the correlation of G.P. consultation. Soc Sci Med 1987; 25: 507–513
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• HMSO. Tackling drugs together: a strategy for England 1995–98. White Paper. HMSO, London 1995
   Google Scholar
• Deehan A, Taylor C, Strang J. The general practitioner, the drug misuser, and the alcohol misuser: major differences in general practitioner activity, therapeutic commitment, and ‘shared care proposals’. Br J Gen Pract 1997; 47: 705–709
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Power R, Hartnoll BA, Chalmers C. The role of significant life events in discriminating help-seeking among illicit drug users. Br J Addict 1992; 27: 1019–1034
   Google Scholar