Injecting illicit drugs - McBride, Andrew; Pates, Richard (Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Substance Abuse, Intravenous; Hepatitis C; HIV Infections; Needle Sharing