Carl A. Latkin

TL;DR: Findings suggest potential displacement of drug activity coinciding with the initiation of urban redevelopment in East Baltimore and space-time scan statistics should be used in future research to describe the potential implications of local policies on drug activity.

TL;DR: Multilevel interventions that address individual, social, and environmental factors are necessary to improve substance abuse treatment retention and treatment outcomes among IDUs referred from a needle exchange program.

TL;DR: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate whether a peer oriented behavioral intervention could reduce injecting and sexual HIV risk behaviors among IDU and their network members and found an intervention effect explained by trial participants assigned to the control arm who missed at least one standardized HTC session during follow-up and subsequently reported increased unprotected sex.

TL;DR: In this paper, rumor and gossip are used in social discourse on HIV and AIDS in the context of gossip and rumor-and-gossip, with the focus on sexual relationships.

TL;DR: Drug users' social networks are an important target for overdose prevention interventions and further research on overdose risk and movement of specific network members in and out of networks is warranted.