This paper reviews and then discusses selected findings from a seventeen year study about
the population prevalence of people who inject drugs (PWID) and of HIV prevalence and …

Objective Law is an important factor in the diffusion of syringe services programs (SSPs).
This study measures the current status of, and 5-year change in, state laws governing SSP …

Context: For three decades, experts have been stressing the importance of law to the
effective operation of public health systems. Most recently, in a 2011 report, the Institute of …

Background Substantial racial/ethnic disparities exist in HIV infection among people who
inject drugs (PWID) in many countries. To strengthen efforts to understand the causes of …

Objectives. We sought to collect and characterize all laws governing the operation of
prescription monitoring programs (PMPs), state-level databases that collect patient-specific …

Measuring law, as the term is used here, means determining dimensions or components of
an area of law relevant for particular research studies and using the resultant categorization …

This Article contributes to an emerging theoretical debate over the legitimate scope of public
health law by linking it to a particular doctrinal debate in public nuisance law. State and local …

Policing matters to public health, and it makes sense to consider how greater cooperation
and even integration between health and law enforcement systems might lead to new and …

Drug-related law enforcement activities may undermine the protective effects of syringe
exchange programs (SEPs) on local injectors' risk of injection-related infections. We …

Introduction Improving access to sterile injection equipment is a key component in
community-based infectious disease prevention. Implementation of syringe access …