Groin injecting in injectable opioid treatment service users in South London

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 381-389

  Miller, PETER G ^a   Forzisi, Luciana ^b   Zador, Deborah ^c   Lintzeris, Nick ^d   Metrebian, Nicola ^b   van der Waal, Rob ^e   Mayet, Soraya ^b   Strang, John ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c JUSTICE HEALTH AND FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Femoral; Groin; Injecting; Prescription heroin; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349841342     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350802635660     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Bourgois P, Schonberg J. 2007. Intimate apartheid: Ethnic dimensions of habitus among homeless heroin injectors. Ethnography 8:7-31.
2. Darke S, Ross J, Kaye S. 2001. Physical injecting sites among injecting drug users in Sydney, Australia. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 62:77-82.
3. Duff C. 2005. Party drugs and party people: Examining the 'normalization' of recreational drug use in Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy 16:161-170.
4. Hunter GM, Donoghoe MC, Stimson GV, Rhodes T, Chalmers CP. 1995. Changes in the injecting risk behaviour of injecting drug users in London, 1990-1993. AIDS 9:493-501.
5. Kellehear A. 1993. The unobtrusive researcher: A guide to methods. St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
6. Lintzeris N, Strang N, Metrebian N, Byford N, Hallam N, Lee N, Zador D, RIOTT Group. 2006. Methodology for the randomised injecting opioid treatment trial (RIOTT): Evaluating injectable methadone and injectable heroin treatment versus optimised oral methadone treatment in the UK. Harm Reduction Journal 3.
7. Maliphant J, Scott J. 2005. Use of the femoral vein ('groin injecting') by a sample of needle exchange clients in Bristol, UK. Harm Reduction Journal 2:6.
8. Measham F, Aldridge J, Parker H. 2000. Dancing on drugs: risk, health and hedonism in the British club scene. London: Free Association.
9. Miller PG. 2005. Scapegoating, self-confidence and risk comparison: The functionality of risk neutralisation and lay epidemiology by injecting drug users. International Journal of Drug Policy 16:246-253.
10. Miller PG, Lintzeris N, Forzisi L. in press. Femoral injecting as an ethical boundary for harm reduction practice. International Journal of Drug Policy 19:468-491.
11. Parker H. 2005. Normalization as a barometer: Recreational drug use and the consumption of leisure by younger Britons. Addiction Research and Theory 13:205-215.
12. Parker HJ, Bakx K, Newcombe R. 1988. Living with heroin: The impact of a drugs ''epidemic'' on an English community. Milton Keynes, [Buckinghamshire]; Philadelphia: Open University Press.
13. Rhodes T, Briggs D, Kimber J, Jones S, Holloway G. 2007. Crack-heroin speedball injection and its implications for vein care: Qualitative study. Addiction 102:1782-1790.
14. Rhodes T, Kimber J. 2007. Safer groin injecting interventions are needed and justifiable as part of a harm reduction approach. Addiction 102:1987-1988.
15. Rhodes T, Stoneman A, Hope V, Hunt N, Martin A, Judd A. 2006. Groin injecting in the context of crack cocaine and homelessness: From 'risk boundary' to'acceptable risk'? International Journal of Drug Policy 17:164-170.
16. Senbanjo R. 2007. Personal communication. East Kent Community Drug Service, UK: Ashford.
17. Shiner M, Newburn T. 1997. Definitely, maybe not? The normalisation of recreational drug use amongst young people. Sociology 31:511-529.
18. Zador D. 2007. Facilitating groin injecting behaviour: Harm reduction or harm production? Addiction 102:1791-1792.
19. Zador D, Lintzeris N, Van der Waal R, Miller P, Metrebian N, Strang J. 2008. The fine line between harm reduction and harm production - development of a clinic groin injecting policy. European Addiction Research 14:213-218.