Injecting illicit drugs

Injecting drug use is of major concern to both Western and developing nations, causing extensive associated harm at both individual and public health levels. This book provides readers with authoritative and practical information on injecting drug use and the health consequences of this behaviour. Includes topical issues such as needle fixation, transitions to and from injecting, and illicit drug use in prison settings. Documents the relationship between injecting practice and infectious diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis C. Explores harm reduction approaches such as safer injecting and super

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 / Daid Shewan, Heino Stöver 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 Haemig and Ingrid van Beek -- Injecting drugs: the user's perspective / Jimmy Dorabjee