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Injecting drug use is a chronic condition, with people who inject drugs (PWID) typically experiencing repeated cessations and relapses during their injection careers. We characterize patterns of ceasing and relapsing and the impact of opiate substitution treatment (OST) during the entire injecting careers of PWID in the Edinburgh Addiction Cohort (EAC).During 2005–2007, 432 surviving participants...
AimsTo investigate childhood influences on onset of injection drug use.
DesignMatched case–control study.
SettingEdinburgh, Scotland.
ParticipantsA total of 432 individuals presenting at a community health facility with injection drug use and 432 age‐ and sex‐matched non‐injecting controls recruited through the same facility.
MeasurementsMain exposures considered were family structure and experience...
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