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Portraying persons who inject drugs recently infected with hepatitis C accessing antiviral treatment : a cluster analysis
(2014)
Objectives. To empirically determine a categorization of people who inject drug (PWIDs) recently infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), in order to identify profiles most likely associated with early HCV treatment uptake. ...
Patterns of cocaine and opioid co-use and polyroutes of administration among street-based cocaine users in Montréal, Canada
(2013)
Background: Effective public health programs aimed at problematic cocaine users are challenged by the fact that they can have complex patterns of drug use with respect to polysubstance use and routes of drug administration. ...
Psychological distress increases needle sharing among cocaine users: Results from the COSMO study
(2014)
Objective: Cocaine use and mental health disorders have both been separately identified as risk factors for blood borne virus infection. However, the contribution of specific underlying aspects of mental health to risks ...
Correlates of at-risk gambling behaviors of homeless youth
(2014)
Objective: This exploratory study aims to describe the gambling behaviors of 419 homeless youth.
Methods: Participants were divided into two groups: 1) those whose gambling behaviors did not present a risk (n=366); and ...
Are poker players all the same? : latent class analysis
(2015)
Poker is the gambling game that is currently gaining the most in popularity. However, there is little information on poker players' characteristics and risk factors. Furthermore, the first studies described poker players, ...
Prevalence and temporal trends of crack injection among injection drug users in eastern central Canada
(2013)
Background: Little is known about crack injection and its temporal trends in North America. This article describes the extent of crack injection and examines temporal trends among injection drug users (IDUs) recruited from ...
Residential trajectories of street youth--the Montréal cohort study
(2014)
Little is known about the course of homelessness among youth between the ages of 18 and 25 despite the many characteristics distinguishing them from adolescents and from older street-involved populations. We examined the ...
Sustained drug use changes following hepatitis C screening and counseling among recently infected persons who inject drugs: a longitudinal study
(2014)
BACKGROUND: Notification of hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive status is known to have short-term impacts on subsequent alcohol, drug use and injection behaviors among persons who inject drugs (PWID). It remains to be ...
Estimating the size of the population of persons who inject drugs in the island of Montréal, Canada, using a six-source capture-recapture model
(2014)
BACKGROUND: To plan and implement services to persons who inject drugs (PWID), knowing their number is essential. For the island of Montréal, Canada, the only estimate, of 11,700 PWID, was obtained in 1996 through a ...
"I love having benzos after my coke shot": The use of psychotropic medication among cocaine users in downtown Montreal
(2017)
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Cocaine abuse is a major public health issue due to its role in the HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics in North America. A significant area of concern among people who use cocaine (PWUC), ...