Injecting illicit drugs / 
edited by Richard Pates, Andrew McBride, Karin Arnold. 
 - Oxford ;;Malden, MA :  Blackwell Pub./Addiction Press,  2005 
 - xiv, 182 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>History of injecting / Richard Pates and Jan Wichter -- The eye of the needle: an ethno-epidemiological analysis of injecting drug use / Jean-Paul Grund -- Pharmaceutical aspects of injecting / Jennifer Scott -- Needle fixation / Richard Pates, Andrew McBride and Karin Arnold -- Women and injecting / Rossana Oretti and Pim Gregory -- Injecting in prisons / David Shewan, Heino Sto??ver and Kate Dolan -- Hepatitis C associated with injecting drug use / Nick Crofts -- HIV and injecting drug use / Robert Heimer -- Odde commotions: some other health consequences of injecting / Andrew McBride and Jan Wichter -- Transitions to and from injecting / Matthew Southwell -- Safer injecting: individual harm reduction advice / Helen Williams and Mark Norman -- Overdose: prevalence, predictors and prevention / Trudi Petersen and David Best -- Supervised injecting rooms / Robert Haemmig and Ingrid van Beek. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405113601 ;140511360X (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Substance Abuse, Intravenous<br/>Hepatitis C<br/>HIV Infections<br/>Needle Sharing
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WM 270  / .I55 2005