Health and safety risks associated with public injecting among people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 582-587

  Leung, Leslie Tze Fung ^a,b   Ti, Lianping ^a,b   Hayashi, Kanna ^a,b   Suwannawong, Paisan ^c   Kaplan, Karyn ^c   Wood, Evan ^a,b   Kerr, Thomas ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Mitsampan Harm Reduction Center   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Assisted injection; Injection drug use; Law enforcement; Public injecting; Thailand

Indexed keywords

STREET DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED INJECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INJECTION DRUG USE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLICE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC INJECTING; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THAILAND;

ASSISTED INJECTION; INJECTION DRUG USE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PUBLIC INJECTING; THAILAND;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG USERS; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLICE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC FACILITIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; THAILAND;

EID: 84887614321     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dar.12060     Document Type: Article

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