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Volume 6;  2009
Analytic Perspective
Debunking the claim that abstinence is usually healthier for smokers than switching to a low-risk alternative, and other observations about anti-tobacco-harm-reduction arguments
Carl V Phillips
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 29. Published online 2009 November 3. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-29.
PMCID: PMC2776004
Book Review
Review of "The Globalisation Of Addiction: A Study In Poverty Of The Spirit" by Bruce K. Alexander
Harry G Levine
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 12. Published online 2009 June 23. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-12.
PMCID: PMC2717062
Brief Reports
Opioid substitution treatment with sublingual buprenorphine in Manipur and Nagaland in Northeast India: what has been established needs to be continued and expanded
M Suresh Kumar, Richard D Natale, B Langkham, Charan Sharma, Rachel Kabi, and Gordon Mortimore
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 4. Published online 2009 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-4.
PMCID: PMC2669063
HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, British Columbia: a growing epidemic
Colin W McInnes, Eric Druyts, Stephanie S Harvard, Mark Gilbert, Mark W Tyndall, Viviane D Lima, Evan Wood, Julio SG Montaner, and Robert S Hogg
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 5. Published online 2009 March 5. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-5.
PMCID: PMC2662822
Large sharing networks and unusual injection practices explain the rapid rise in HIV among IDUs in Sargodha, Pakistan
Adnan A Khan, Ahmad B Awan, Salman U Qureshi, Ali Razaque, and Syed T Zafar
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 13. Published online 2009 June 26. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-13.
PMCID: PMC2713223
Survey of abuses against injecting drug users in Indonesia
Sara LM Davis, Agus Triwahyuono, and Risa Alexander
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 28. Published online 2009 October 24. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-28.
PMCID: PMC2770997
Case Studies
NAOMI: The trials and tribulations of implementing a heroin assisted treatment study in North America
Candice C Gartry, Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, Nancy Laliberté, and Martin T Schechter
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 2. Published online 2009 January 21. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-2.
PMCID: PMC2639576
Bundling occupational safety with harm reduction information as a feasible method for improving police receptiveness to syringe access programs: evidence from three U.S. cities
Corey S Davis and Leo Beletsky
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 16. Published online 2009 July 14. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-16.
PMCID: PMC2716314
Commentaries
Can abuse deterrent formulations make a difference? Expectation and speculation
Simon H Budman, Jill M Grimes Serrano, and Stephen F Butler
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 8. Published online 2009 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-8.
PMCID: PMC2694768
Improving introspection to inform free will regarding the choice by healthy individuals to use or not use cognitive enhancing drugs
David S Thaler
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 10. Published online 2009 June 16. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-10.
PMCID: PMC2702330
Harm reduction in hospitals: is it time?
Beth S Rachlis, Thomas Kerr, Julio SG Montaner, and Evan Wood
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 19. Published online 2009 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-19.
PMCID: PMC2731094
Research
The syringe gap: an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in New York City
Daliah I Heller, Denise Paone, Anne Siegler, and Adam Karpati
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 1. Published online 2009 January 12. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-1.
PMCID: PMC2631523
Comparison of injecting drug users who obtain syringes from pharmacies and syringe exchange programs in Tallinn, Estonia
Sigrid Vorobjov, Anneli Uusküla, Katri Abel-Ollo, Ave Talu, Kristi Rüütel, and Don C Des Jarlais
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 3. Published online 2009 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-3.
PMCID: PMC2653475
Overdose beliefs and management practices among ethnic Vietnamese heroin users in Sydney, Australia
Lisa Maher and Hien T Ho
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 6. Published online 2009 April 27. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-6.
PMCID: PMC2679730
Moving beyond non-engagement on regulated needle-syringe exchange programs in Australian prisons
Daniel Mogg and Michael Levy
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 7. Published online 2009 May 4. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-7.
PMCID: PMC2680805
The context of illicit drug overdose deaths in British Columbia, 2006
Jane A Buxton, Trevor Skutezky, Andrew W Tu, Bilal Waheed, Alex Wallace, and Sunny Mak
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 9. Published online 2009 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-9.
PMCID: PMC2694163
Prevalence of Khat chewing in college and secondary (high) school students of Jazan region, Saudi Arabia
Hussein M Ageely
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 11. Published online 2009 June 20. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-11.
PMCID: PMC2707373
Survey of smokers' reasons for not switching to safer sources of nicotine and their willingness to do so in the future
Karyn K Heavner, Zale Rosenberg, and Carl V Phillips
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 14. Published online 2009 July 2. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-14.
PMCID: PMC2714508
Characteristics of inmates witnessing overdose events in prison: implications for prevention in the correctional setting
Carmen E Albizu-García, Adriana Hernández-Viver, Jacqueline Feal, and José F Rodríguez-Orengo
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 15. Published online 2009 July 9. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-15.
PMCID: PMC2718878
Psychosocial and contextual correlates of opioid overdose risk among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia
Lauretta E Grau, Traci C Green, Mikhail Torban, Ksenia Blinnikova, Evgeny Krupitsky, Ruslan Ilyuk, Andrei P Kozlov, and Robert Heimer
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 17. Published online 2009 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-17.
PMCID: PMC2724502
Safe using messages may not be enough to promote behaviour change amongst injecting drug users who are ambivalent or indifferent towards death
Peter G Miller
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 18. Published online 2009 July 25. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-18.
PMCID: PMC2724503
Worry as a window into the lives of people who use injection drugs: a factor analysis approach
Heidi Exner, Erin K Gibson, Ryan Stone, Jennifer Lindquist, Laura Cowen, and Eric A Roth
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 20. Published online 2009 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-20.
PMCID: PMC2724504
Needle and syringe sharing among Iranian drug injectors
Hassan Rafiey, Hooman Narenjiha, Peymaneh Shirinbayan, Roya Noori, Morteza Javadipour, Mohsen Roshanpajouh, Mercedeh Samiei, and Shervin Assari
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 21. Published online 2009 July 30. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-21.
PMCID: PMC2731095
Drug choice, spatial distribution, HIV risk, and HIV prevalence among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia
Gina Rae Kruse, Russell Barbour, Robert Heimer, Alla V Shaboltas, Olga V Toussova, Irving F Hoffman, and Andrei P Kozlov
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 22. Published online 2009 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-22.
PMCID: PMC2731096
HIV and hepatitis C virus infections among hanka injection drug users in central Ukraine: a cross-sectional survey
Kostyantyn V Dumchev, Ruslan Soldyshev, Han-Zhu Qian, Olexandr O Zezyulin, Susan D Chandler, Pavel Slobodyanyuk, Larisa Moroz, and Joseph E Schumacher
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 23. Published online 2009 August 23. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-23.
PMCID: PMC2741433
Efficacy of pharmacotherapies for short-term smoking abstinance: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Edward J Mills, Ping Wu, Dean Spurden, Jon O Ebbert, and Kumanan Wilson
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 25. Published online 2009 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-25.
PMCID: PMC2760513
Can we prevent drug related deaths by training opioid users to recognise and manage overdoses?
Romina Lopez Gaston, David Best, Victoria Manning, and Ed Day
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 26. Published online 2009 September 25. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-26.
PMCID: PMC2762999
Surveillance indicators for potential reduced exposure products (PREPs): developing survey items to measure awareness
Karen Bogen, Lois Biener, Catherine A Garrett, Jane Allen, K Michael Cummings, Anne Hartman, Stephen Marcus, Ann McNeill, Richard J O'Connor, Mark Parascandola, and Linda Pederson
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 27. Published online 2009 October 19. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-27.
PMCID: PMC2770517
Review
Injection drug use, unsafe medical injections, and HIV in Africa: a systematic review
Savanna R Reid
Harm Reduct J. 2009; 6: 24. Published online 2009 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-6-24.
PMCID: PMC2741434
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