Background The spread of illicitly manufactured fentanyl has the potential to greatly increase
the fatal overdoses in many places in the world. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the …

The study presents an interdisciplinary study focusing on the critical issue of suicide among
young people in two European countries, Ukraine, and Estonia. The research aims to shed …

Preventing the transition to injection drug use is an important public health goal, as people
who inject drugs (PWID) are at high risk for overdose and acquisition of infectious disease …

Introduction We sought to identify latent profiles of polysubstance use patterns among
people who inject drugs in three distinct North American settings, and then determine …

We tested the hypothesis that an updated “Break the Cycle”(BtC) intervention, based in
social cognitive theory and motivational interviewing, would reduce the likelihood that …

Objective: Drug injection initiation is often assisted by a person who injects drugs (PWID).
How often PWID provide this assistance has not been examined. We examine frequency of …

Injection drug initiation usually requires assistance by someone who already injects drugs.
To develop interventions that prevent people from starting to inject drugs, it is imperative to …

Background The social processes around initiating injection may be well-suited to
intervention, yet there is substantial heterogeneity in the reported experiences of people …

Background It has been observed in an earlier study that the number of people who inject
drugs (PWID) in Estonia is declining. We provide nationwide estimates of the number of …

People who inject drugs (PWID) play a critical role in injection-naïve individuals transitioning
to injection drug use. We investigated factors associated with future likelihood of initiating …