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Rehabilitation Required: Russia’s Human Rights Obligation to Provide Evidence-based
Drug Dependence Treatment
Human Rights Watch
November 2007
Report

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Estimated drug overdose deaths averted by North America's first medically-supervised safer injection facility.
Milloy MJ, Kerr T, Tyndall M, et al 
PLoS ONE. 2008 Oct 7;3(10):e3351.
 Paper
 
Psychosocial and pharmacological treatments versus pharmacological treatments for opioid detoxification.
Amato L, Minozzi S, Davoli M, et al  
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Oct 8;(4):CD005031.
 Abstract
 
Disrupted White Matter Integrity in Heroin Dependence: A Controlled Study Utilizing Diffusion Tensor Imaging.
Liu H, Li L, Hao Y, Cao D, Xu L
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2008 Aug 12:1.
Abstract
 
A 50-year-old woman addicted to heroin: review of treatment of heroin addiction
O'Brien CP.
JAMA. 2008 Jul 16;300(3):314-21.
 Abstract
 
Pharmacogenetic treatments for drug addiction: alcohol and opiates.
Haile CN, Kosten TA, Kosten TR.
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2008;34(4):355-81.
Abstract
 
Long-term outcomes of treatment-resistant heroin addicts with and without DSM-IV axis I psychiatric
comorbidity (dual diagnosis).
Maremmani I, Pacini M, Lubrano S, et al
 Eur Addict Res. 2008;14(3):134-42.
 Abstract
 
High-frequency users of detoxification: who are they?
Amodeo M, Lundgren L, Chassler D, Witas J.
Subst Use Misuse. 2008;43(7):839-49
 Abstract
 
Seeking refuge from violence in street-based drug schemes: Women's experiences in North America's
first supervised injection facility.
Kerr T, Fairbairn N, Small W, Shannon K, Wood E. et al
Soc Sci Med. 2008 Jun 16.
 Abstract
 
The Canadian government's treatment of scientific process and evidence: inside the evaluation of North America's first
supervised injecting facility.
Wood E, Kerr T, Tyndall MW, Montaner JS.
 Int J Drug Policy. 2008 Jun;19(3):220-5
 Abstract
 
"I inject less as I have easier access to pipes" Injecting, and sharing of crack-smoking materials,
decline as safer crack-smoking resources are distributed.
Leonard L, Derubeis E, Pelude L, et al
Int J Drug Policy. 2008 Jun;19(3):255-264.
 Abstract
 
Factors Related to Abstinence from Drug Use and Seeking Help from Medical Services
in Taiwanese Heroin and Methamphetamine Users.
Yen CN, Tang TC, Liu S  
Kaohsiung J Med Sci. 2008 Feb;24(2):63-71.
 Abstract
 
The effects of the market withdrawal of temazepam gel capsules on benzodiazepine
injecting in Sydney, Australia.
Degenhardt L, Roxburgh A, van Beek I, et al
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2008 Mar;27(2):145-51.
 Abstract
 
Predictors of the degree of drug treatment coverage for injection drug users in 94
metropolitan areas in the United States of America.
Friedman SR, Tempalski B, Brady JE, et al
Int J Drug Policy. 2007 Dec;18(6):475-85.
 Abstract
 
Distributive syringe sharing among young adult injection drug users in five U.S. cities.
Golub ET, Strathdee SA, Bailey SL, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007 Nov;91 Suppl 1:S30-8.
 Abstract
Perceived risk, peer influences, and injection partner type predict receptive syringe sharing
among young adult injection drug users in five U.S. cities.
 Bailey SL, Ouellet LJ, Mackesy-Amiti ME, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007 Nov;91 Suppl 1:S18-29.
Abstract

Methods to recruit and retain a cohort of young-adult injection drug users for the Third
Collaborative Injection Drug Users Study/Drug Users Intervention Trial (CIDUS III/DUIT).
Garfein RS, Swartzendruber A, Ouellet LJ, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007 Nov;91 Suppl 1:S4-17.
 Abstract
 
The impact of treatment on 3 years' outcome for heroin dependence: findings from the
Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).
Teesson M, Mills K, Ross J, et al 
Addiction. 2007 Nov 8
 Abstract
 
Case study: accessible primary health care--a foundation to improve health outcomes for
people who inject drugs.
van Beek I
Int J Drug Policy. 2007 Aug;18(4):329-32
 Abstract
 
Rate of detoxification service use and its impact among a cohort of supervised injecting
facility users.
Wood E, Tyndall MW, Zhang R, et al
Addiction. 2007 Jun;102(6):916-9.
 Abstract
 
Individual and system influences on waiting time for substance abuse treatment.
Carr CJ, Xu J, Redko C, Lane DT
J Subst Abuse Treat. 2007 May 16;
 Abstract
 
FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
A follow-up study of heroin addicts (VEdeTTE2): study design and protocol.
Vigna-Taglianti FD, Mathis F, et al 
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2007 Mar 15;2(1):9
Paper
 
Factors associated with sharing syringes among street-recruited injecting drug users.
Folch C, Merono M, Casabona J.
Med Clin (Barc). 2006 Oct 14;127(14):526-32.
Cessation of injection drug use and change in injection frequency: the Chicago Needle
Exchange Evaluation Study.
Huo D, Bailey SL, Ouellet LJ.  
Addiction. 2006 Nov;101(11):1606-13
 Abstract
 
In-patient detoxification procedures, treatment retention, and post-treatment opiate use:
Comparison of lofexidine+naloxone, lofexidine+placebo, and methadone.
McCambridge J, Gossop M, Beswick , et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2006 Oct 23;
 Abstract
 
FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
 Patients in long-term maintenance therapy for drug use in Italy: analysis of some parameters
of social integration and serological status for infectious diseases in a cohort of 1091 patients.
Quaglio G, Lugoboni F, Pattaro C, et al
BMC Public Health. 2006 Aug 23;6(1):216
 Paper
 
Getting clean and harm reduction: adversarial or complementary issues for injection
drug users.
Peterson J, Mitchell SG, Hong Y, et al 
Cad Saude Publica. 2006 Apr;22(4):733-740.
Abstract
 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Service Uptake and Characteristics of Injection Drug Users Utilizing North America's First
Medically Supervised Safer Injecting Facility.
Wood E, Kerr T, Qui Z, et al  
Am J Public Health. 2006 Mar 29
Abstract
 
How do treatment repeaters use the drug treatment system? An analysis of injection
drug users in Massachusetts.
Lundgren LM, Sullivan L, Amodeo M.
J Subst Abuse Treat. 2006 Mar;30(2):121-8.
 Abstract
 
Rapid Assessment and Response Studies of Injection Drug Use: Knowledge Gain,
Capacity Building,and Intervention Development in a Multisite Study.
Stimson GV, Fitch C, des Jarlais D et al 
Am J Public Health. 2005 Dec 27;
 Abstract
 
Longitudinal predictors of injection cessation and subsequent relapse among a cohort of i
njection drug users in Baltimore, MD, 1988-2000.
Shah NG, Galai N, Celentano DD,et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2005 Dec 15;
Abstract
 
Facilitating entry into drug treatment among injection drug users referred from a needle
exchange program: Results from a community-based behavioral intervention trial.
Strathdee SA, Ricketts EP, Huettner S, et al 
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2005 Dec 16
 Abstract
 
Sociodemographic Disparities in Access to Addiction Treatment(a) Among a Cohort of
Vancouver Injection Drug Users.
Wood E, Li K, Palepu A, Marsh DC, et al
Subst Use Misuse. 2005 Jul;40(8):1153-67.
 Abstract
 
Drug injection cessation among HIV-infected injecting drug users.
Bouhnik AD, Carrieri MP, Rey D, et al
Addict Behav. 2004 Aug;29(6):1189-97.
 Abstract
 
Intensity of drug injection as a determinant of sustained injection cessation among chronic
drug users: the interface with social factors and service utilization.
Bruneau J, Brogly SB, Tyndall MW, et al
Addiction. 2004 Jun;99(6):727-37.
 Abstract

Opioid detoxification with buprenorphine, clonidine, or methadone in hospitalized heroin-|
dependent patients with HIV infection.
Umbricht A, Hoover DR, Tucker MJ
Drug Alcohol Depend 2003 Apr 1;69(3):263-72
 Abstract

Does cannabis use predict poor outcome for heroin-dependent patients on maintenance
treatment?
Past findings and more evidence against.
Epstein DH, Preston KL.
Addiction 2003 Mar;98(3):269-79
 Abstract

Readiness for cessation of drug use among recent attenders and nonattenders of a
needle exchange program.
Henderson LA, Vlahov D, Celentano DD, et al.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2003 Feb 1;32(2):229-37
 Abstract

Hope as a predictor of entering substance abuse treatment
Jackson R, Wernicke R, Haaga DA.
Addict Behav 2003 Jan-Feb;28(1):13-28
 Abstract

  

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

 
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
Comprehensive care for injecting drug users: Syringe exchange, methadone and HIV care and treatment
E Goosby  
(XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Poster Presentation

Implementation of case management (CM) in rehabilitation of IDUs in Estonia
Kalikov J., Kalikova N., Magerova T.
(16IAC)
 Abstract
Drug Overdose
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Non-fatal overdose among a cohort of active injection drug users recruited from a supervised injection facility.
Milloy MJ, Kerr T, Mathias R,et al   
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2008;34(4):499-509.
 Abstract
 
Physicians' Knowledge of and Willingness to Prescribe Naloxone to Reverse Accidental
Opiate Overdose: Challenges and Opportunities.
Beletsky L, Ruthazer R, Macalino GE, et al 
J Urban Health. 2006 Dec 5;
 Abstract
 
Response to overdose among injection drug users.
Pollini RA, McCall L, Mehta SH, et al
Am J Prev Med. 2006 Sep;31(3):261-4
 Abstract
 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Determinants of overdose incidents among illicit opioid users in 5 Canadian cities
Fischer B, Brissette S, Brochu S, et al
 CMAJ 2004;171 235-239
 Paper
 
Drug-related mortality and fatal overdose risk: pilot cohort study of heroin users recruited from
specialist drug treatment sites in london.
Hickman M, Carnwath Z, Madden P, et al  
J Urban Health. 2003 Jun;80(2):274-87.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Loss of tolerance and overdose mortality after inpatient opiate detoxification: follow up study
Strang J, McCambridge J, Best D, et al.
 BMJ 2003;326:959-960
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Impact of supply-side policies for control of illicit drugs in the face of the AIDS and overdose
epidemics: investigation of a massive heroin seizure.
 Wood E, Tyndall MW, Spittal PM, et al.
CMAJ 2003;168(2):165-9
 Paper

Predictors of accidental fatal drug overdose among a cohort of injection drug users
O'Driscoll PT,  McGoughJ , HaganH, et al.
Am J Public Health 2001; 91: 984-987.
 Abstract

Overdosing among young injection drug users in San Francisco.
Ochoa KC, Hahn JA, Seal KH, Moss AR 
Addict Behav 2001 May-Jun;26(3):453-60
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          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 

Overdose prevention training at syringe exchange sites
N Grossman
 (15IAC)
 Abstract

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