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." "As an efficient route of drug administration, the sequelae of injecting illicit drugs can be particularly deleterious in nature. The chapters in this book trace the hazards for the drug injector and promote a harm reduction approach to minimise these risks. Socio-cultural issues are considered, such as the ritualisation of injecting behaviour. Lifestyle characteristics of the injecting drug user are also taken into account. Insights from the user perspective are reflected in the last chapter."--Jacket

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