ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2018
Preventing Injection Drug use Initiation: State of the Evidence and Opportunities for the Future.
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- Hooked before the first injection: The role of prescription opioids in early injection drug use initiation in San Francisco.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Transitions from first drug use to illicit opioid and injection drug use in a multisite rural U.S. cohort of people who use drugs.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Nicotine use is Associated With Elevated Risk of Opioid use Disorder Following Total/Hemi Hip Arthroplasty Procedures.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Decrease in injection and rise in smoking and snorting of heroin and synthetic opioids, 2000-2021.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Context and correlates of providing assistance with someone's first injection in the AIDS linked to the IntraVenous Experience cohort, Baltimore, MD.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Latent polydrug use patterns and the provision of injection initiation assistance among people who inject drugs in three North American settings.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Article
- First-line opioid agonist treatment as prevention against assisting others in initiating injection drug use: A longitudinal cohort study of people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2023Article
- Determinants of health among people who use illicit drugs in the conflict-affected countries of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar: a systematic review of epidemiological evidence.Conflict and health · 2022Review
- Factors Associated with Likelihood of Initiating Others into Injection Drug Use Among People Who Inject Drugs in West Virginia.AIDS and behavior · 2022Article
- Poly-drug use among female and male commercial sex workers visiting a drop in centre in Mombasa County, Kenya.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- "I would rather do it myself": injection initiation and current injection patterns among women who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.Harm reduction journal · 2021Article
- Investigating a bidirectional relationship between overdose and provision of injection initiation assistance among persons who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada and Tijuana, Mexico.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Article
- Do sexual expectancies and inhibitions predict high-risk sexual behaviours? Evidence from a cross-sectional survey among young psychoactive substance users in informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Examining the gender composition of drug injecting initiation events: A mixed methods investigation of three North American contexts.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Article
- A Multistage Process Model of How a Person Who Currently Injects Drugs Comes to Assist Persons Who Do not Inject with Their First Injections.Frontiers in sociology · 2021Article
- Self-perception of assisting with future injection drug initiation: The influence of relationships in the process of drug injecting initiation.Drug and alcohol review · 2021Article
- The role of drug treatment and recovery services: an opportunity to address injection initiation assistance in Tijuana, Mexico.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Preventing transitions into injection drug use: A call for gender-responsive upstream prevention.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Trajectories of initiation for the heroin-based drug whoonga - qualitative evidence from South Africa.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Recent incarceration and risk of first-time injection initiation assistance: A prospective cohort study of persons who inject drugs.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
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7 authors.
Dan WerbDivision of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0507, USA. dwerb@ucsd.edu.
R N BluthenthalDivision of Health Behavior Research, Institute for Prevention Research, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
G KollaDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
C StrikeDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
A H KralBehavioral and Urban Health Program, RTI International, San Francisco, CA, USA.
A UuskülaInstitute of Family Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
D Des JarlaisEdmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, USA.
Funding
Transdisciplinary Theoretical Svnthesis and Development CoreP30DA011041 · NIDA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI Holly Hagan, Courtney McKnight · 1998 to 2026
$38.9MCombined prevention to reduce initiation into injecting drug useDP1DA039542 · NIDA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI DES JARLAIS, DON C · 2015 to 2019
$4.1MPreventing injection initiation: The Change The Cycle Randomized Controlled TrialR01DA038965 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BLUTHENTHAL, RICKY N, KRAL, ALEXANDER H · 2015 to 2018
$3.0MPreventing HIV by modifying the context for injecting initiationDP2DA040256 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WERB, DANIEL M · 2015 to 2015
$2.3MExploratory Research on Late Initiation of Drug InjectionR01DA027689 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BLUTHENTHAL, RICKY N, KRAL, ALEXANDER H · 2010 to 2012
$1.7MNIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA039542NIDA NIH HHS DP2 DA040256NIDA NIH HHS P30 DA011041NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA027689NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA038965
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Harm ReductionAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBehavior TherapyDrug UsersFemaleForecastingHumansMaleMiddle AgedRisk FactorsSubstance Abuse, IntravenousUnited States
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