Journal•ISSN: 0955-3959
International Journal of Drug Policy
Elsevier BV
About: International Journal of Drug Policy is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Poison control & Harm reduction. It has an ISSN identifier of 0955-3959. Over the lifetime, 3500 publications have been published receiving 88568 citations. The journal is also known as: The International journal on drug policy.
Topics: Poison control, Harm reduction, Medicine, Population, Cannabis
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TL;DR: In this paper, a shift in focus towards the risk environment as a unit of analysis and change helps to overcome the limits of individualism characterising most HIV prevention interventions as well as to appreciate how drug-related harm intersects with health and vulnerability more generally.
987 citations
TL;DR: The challenge is to generate empirical and theoretical work which encompasses both 'determined' and 'productive' relations of risk across social structures and everyday practices.
739 citations
TL;DR: Prescription opioid misuse was a key feature of trajectories into injection drug use and/or heroin use amongst this sample of young IDUs, suggesting a new pattern of drug use may be emerging whereby IDUs initiate prescription opioid misuse before using heroin.
394 citations
TL;DR: A nationwide up-cycle of heroin use may be occurring among young inner city, suburban and rural youth fueled by widespread prescription opioid pill use.
391 citations
TL;DR: Data suggest high global prevalence of HCV and HIV/HCV co-infection among IDUs, and suggest exploring protective factors in sites of low HCV prevalence.
343 citations