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Peter Meylakhs
Researcher at National Research University – Higher School of Economics
Publications - 19
Citations - 259
Peter Meylakhs is an academic researcher from National Research University – Higher School of Economics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Harm reduction & Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 18 publications receiving 210 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Meylakhs include Centre for Independent Social Research.
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Internet Search and Krokodil in the Russian Federation: An Infoveillance Study
TL;DR: This study demonstrates the application of novel methods recently used by policy makers to both monitor illicit drug use and influence drug policy decision making and suggests it is plausible that Yandex search behavior served as a proxy for patterns of krokodil production and use during the date range investigated.
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Strategies to avoid opiate withdrawal: implications for HCV and HIV risks.
TL;DR: Withdrawal periods can heighten risky injection practices and how some long-term injectors manage such risks is explored.
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Symbiotic goals and the prevention of blood-borne viruses among injection drug users.
Samuel R. Friedman,Milagros Sandoval,Pedro Mateu-Gelabert,Peter Meylakhs,Don C. Des Jarlais,Don C. Des Jarlais +5 more
TL;DR: Grounded hypotheses that IDUs who are able to attain symbiotic goals like avoiding withdrawal and maintaining social support are assisted thereby in remaining uninfected with HIV or hepatitis C are supported.
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An AIDS-Denialist Online Community on a Russian Social Networking Service: Patterns of Interactions With Newcomers and Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion
TL;DR: This study suggests that some of those who become AIDS denialists have sufficiently reasonable grounds to suspect that “something is wrong” with scientific theory, because their personal experience contradicts the unitary picture of AIDS disease progression.
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Harm reduction via online platforms for people who use drugs in Russia: a qualitative analysis of web outreach work.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that web outreach work is a convenient tool for delivering some harm reduction services to PWUD either partially or completely online and for recruiting new clients (including hard-to-reach PWUD that avoid attending brick-and-mortar facilities).