Predictors of risky needle use following interventions with injection drug users in Ukraine

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 82, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Booth, Robert E ^a   Kwiatkowski, Carol F ^a   Mikulich Gilbertson, Susan K ^a   Brewster, John T ^a   Salomonsen Sautel, Stacy ^a   Corsi, Karen F ^a   Sinitsyna, Larisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Données Manobi Sénégal Counterpart International Sénégal   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Injection drug users; Risk reduction; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UKRAINE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLE SHARING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UKRAINE;

EID: 33746223099     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-8716(06)80009-8     Document Type: Article

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