Research Catalog

Title

Needle sharing among intravenous drug abusers : national and international perspectives / editors, Robert J. Battjes, Roy W. Pickens.

Publication

Rockville, MD : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse ; Washington, DC : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Battjes, Robert.
• Pickens, Roy W.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Description

xiv, 189 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• NIDA research monograph ; 80
• DHHS publication ; no. (ADM) 88-1567

Uniform Title

• NIDA research monograph ; 80.
• DHHS publication ; no. (ADM) 88-1567.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > United States > Prevention
• Intravenous drug abuse > United States
• Intravenous drug abusers > Diseases > United States
• Needle sharing > Health aspects
• Injections, Intravenous
• Drug abuse
• Drug addiction
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control
• Injections, Intravenous
• Substance-Related Disorders
• drug addiction
• drug abuse
• Drug addiction
• Drug abuse
• AIDS (Disease) > Prevention
• Intravenous drug abuse
• AIDS (Disease) > United States
• Drug addicts > Diseases > United States
• Drug abuse > Health aspects > United States
• Intravenous drug abuse > Health aspects > United States
• Needle sharing > Health aspects > United States
• United States

Genre/Form

• Government publications – United States.
• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Shipping list no.: 88-397-P.
• Item 831-C-8
• S/N 017-024-013455

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Needle sharing among intrvenous drug users : an overview / Robert J. Battjes and Roy W. Pickens -- Overview : HIV infection amng intravenous drug users in the United States and Europe / Harry W. Haverkos -- Needle sharing and street behavior in response to IADS in New York City / William Hopkins -- The ethnography of needle sharing among intravenous drug users and implications for public policies and intervention strategies / Harvey W. Feldman and Patrick Biernacki -- MexicanA̲merican intravenous drug users' needle-sharing practices : implications for AIDS prevention / Alberto G. Mata and Jaime S. Jorquez -- Amsterdam's drug policy and its implications for controlling needle sharing / Ernst C. Buning, Giel H.A. van Brussel, and Gerrit van Santen -- The influence of AIDS upon patterns of intravenous use--syringe and needle sharing--among illicit drug usres in Britain / Robert Michael Power -- Injecting equipment exchange schemes in England and Scotland / Gerry V. Stimson -- Sharing needles and the spread of HIV in Italy's addict population / Enrico Tempesta and Massimo Di Giannantonio -- Drug addiction and AIDS in France in 1987 / Claude Olievenstein -- Intravenous drug use and AIDS transmission : federal and state laws regulating needle availability / Chris B. Pascal -- Combining ethnographic and epidemiologic methods in targeted AIDS unterventions : the Chicago model / W. Wayne Wiebel -- Why bleach? : developmentof a strategy to combat HIV contagion among San Francisco intravenous drug users / John A. Newmeyer -- The sharing of drug injection equipment and the AIDS epidemic in New York City : the first decade / Don C. Des Jarlais ... [et al.] -- Needle sharing among intravenous drug abusers : future directions / Robert J. Battjes and Roy W. Pickens.

LCCN

88602344

OCLC

• ocm18218619
• 18218619
• SCSB-1434585

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library