Disease relevance of Needle-Exchange Programs

• They apply the model to determine the allocation of a limited budget among 3 types of HIV prevention programs in a population of injection drug users and nonusers: needle exchange programs, methadone maintenance treatment, and condom availability programs [1].

Psychiatry related information on Needle-Exchange Programs

• Traditional approaches to prevent parenteral transmission of HIV infection in this population include abstinence facilitated through treatment for drug abuse, HIV testing with education and counseling, disinfection of needles with bleach between uses, and needle exchange programs [2].

High impact information on Needle-Exchange Programs

• Regulating controversial programs for unpopular people: methadone maintenance and syringe exchange programs [3].
• Independent correlates of HCV seroconversion included female sex, cocaine use, injecting at least daily and frequent attendance at a needle exchange program [4].
• METHODS: Interview data were collected from 187 active IDUs who scored positively (> or = 8) on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, who were recruited from a Providence, RI, needle exchange program (1998-1999) [5].
• Needle exchange program participation by anabolic steroid injectors, United States 1998 [6].
• Feasibility of referring drug users from a needle exchange program into an addiction treatment program: experience with a mobile treatment van and LAAM maintenance [7].

Chemical compound and disease context of Needle-Exchange Programs

• HIV infection, female gender, prostitution among females, foreign nationality, injection of heroin and cocaine, a high frequency of injecting, and obtaining syringes through the needle exchange program were independently and positively associated with skin abscesses [8].

Associations of Needle-Exchange Programs with chemical compounds

• IDUs were randomly assigned to either 1) Pharmacy Sales Condition, access to NS via legal sales of nonprescription NS; or 2) Needle Exchange Condition, with additional access to NS via an experimental needle exchange program [9].
• We describe the degree of nicotine addiction and readiness to quit smoking among people with a history of injection drug use, comparing those in a methadone maintenance treatment program (MMTP) with active illicit drug injectors in a needle exchange program (NEP) [10].
• We evaluated program entry, retention, and early treatment response of needle exchange program (NEP) attenders referred to a drug treatment program using levomethadyl acetate hydrochloride (LAAM) [7].

Gene context of Needle-Exchange Programs

• Syringe and needle exchange programs worldwide: Part II [11].
• To stem the spread of HIV among intravenous drug users, and between them and their sexual partners and offspring, Vancouver initiated a multifaceted "ways and means" needle exchange program in March of 1989 [12].

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