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Background and aims
Not all people experiencing opioid dependence benefit from oral opioid agonist treatment. The aim of this study was to examine perceptions of (supervised) injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) (described as ‘an opioid similar to heroin self‐injected at a clinic several times a day’) among people who regularly use opioids and determine how common iOAT eligibility criteria...
Introduction and AimsThe harms associated with non‐medical use of pharmaceutical opioid analgesics are well established; however, less is known about the characteristics and drug‐use patterns of the growing and hidden populations of people using pharmaceutical opioids illicitly, including the frequency of pharmaceutical opioid injection. This paper aimed to undertake a detailed examination of jurisdictional...
Introduction and Aims.To estimate the contribution that people who inject drugs (PWID) make to population‐level use of prescription opioids in Australia.
Design and Methods.Data on prescriptions of oxycodone, morphine and methadone tablets were obtained for New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Queensland, and time series analyses used to characterise the trends from 2002 to 2010. Estimates of...
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