Research Catalog

Title

Handbook on risk of AIDS : injection drug users and sexual partners / edited by Barry S. Brown and George M. Beschner, with the National AIDS Research Consortium.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brown, Barry S.
• Beschner, George M.

Description

xl, 570 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > United States
• AIDS (Disease) > Risk factors
• Intravenous drug abuse > United States
• Intravenous drug abusers > Sexual behavior > United States
• Needle sharing
• Intravenous drug abuse
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
• Needle Sharing
• Risk Factors
• Sexual Behavior
• Substance Abuse, Intravenous
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Needle sharing
• AIDS (Disease)
• AIDS (Disease) > Risk factors
• Intravenous drug abuse
• Comportement sexuel
• Échange aiguille
• Syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise > Épidémiologie
• Toxicomanie intraveineuse
• Risikoverhalten
• Aids
• United States > epidemiology
• United States

Genre/Form

• Handbook
• handbooks.
• Handbooks and manuals
• Handbooks and manuals.
• Guides et manuels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: At Risk for AIDS -- Injection Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners / Barry S. Brown and George M. Beschner -- 1. Overview of the History of the HIV Epidemic Among Drug Injectors / Samuel R. Friedman, Don C. Des Jarlais and Thomas P. Ward -- 2. The Prevalence of HIV Infection in a National Sample of Injection Drug Users / Richard A. Labrie, William E. Mcauliffe, Ro Nemeth-Coslett and Larissa Wilberschied -- 3. HIV Infection/Serostatus -- Outside Epicenters Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) Infection: A Comparison Among Injection Drug Users in High and Low Seroprevalence Areas / Harvey A. Siegal, Robert G. Carlson and Russel S. Falck -- 4. HIV Seroprevalence Among Injection Drug Users in Puerto Rico: A Comparative Perspective / Hector M. Colon, Rafaela R. Robles, Hardeo Sahai, Juan C. Reyes and Tomas D. Matos -- 5. Drug Use Patterns Among Injection Drug Users and Their Sex Partners / Thomas E. Feucht, Richard C. Stephens and T. Shawn Sullivan.
• 6. Needle Use Behavior / Richard C. Stephens, Thomas E. Feucht and Brian H. Gibbs -- 7. Needle Use Risks: Composite Measures and Comparisons / George W. Joe and D. Dwayne Simpson -- 8. Epidemiology of Crack Use Among Injection Drug Users and Sex Partners of Injection Drug Users / Dale D. Chitwood -- 9. Women and Men Injection Drug Users: An Updated Look at Gender Differences and Risk Factors / Vivian Brown and Gloria Weissman -- 10. Characteristics of Female Sexual Partners / Sherry Deren, Rees Davis, Stephanie Tortu and Indu Ahluwalia -- 11. Sex for Money and Drugs / Deena D. Watson, Barbara Kail and Scott Ray -- 12. AIDS and Puerto Rican Injection Drug Users in the United States / Merrill Singer and Zhongke Jia -- 13. Risk Factors and HIV Infection Among Three Different Cultural Groups of Injection Drug Users / Rafaela R. Robles, Hector M. Colon, Tomas D. Matos, Juan C. Reyes, Carmen A. Marrero and Cruz M. Lopez.
• 14. African American Injection Drug Users / Adelbert Jones, Charlene Lewis and Vernon J. Shorty -- 15. Drug Use, Sexual Behaviors, Risk of HIV Infection, and Age Differences Among Injection Drug Users Not in Treatment / Mark L. Williams and Frederick R. Snyder -- 16. Homelessness and Risk Behaviors Among Intravenous Drug Users in Chicago and New York City / Susan J. Popkin, Wendell A. Johnson, Michael C. Clatts, W. Wayne Wiebel and Sherry Deren -- 17. Mobility as a Factor in the Spread of HIV Among Intravenous Drug Abusers / Mark L. Williams, Clyde B. Mccoy, Ramdas Menon and Elizabeth L. Khoury -- 18. Injection Drug Users, Incarceration, and HIV: Some Legal and Social Service Delivery Issues / James A. Inciardi, Duane C. Mcbride, Jerome J. Platt and Sandra Baxter -- 19. Injection Drug Users, Drug Treatment, and HIV Risk Behavior / Jon Liebman, Laverne D. Knezek, Kathleen Coughey and Steven Hua.
• 20. Injection Drug Users and Self-Help Groups / John F. French, Mitchell J. Rosen, Robert C. Freeman and Gloria Rodriguez -- 21. Entry into Treatment of IDUs Based on the Association of Outreach Workers with Treatment Programs / Rebecca Sager Ashery, Hillard Davis, Willie H. Davis and Roy I. Ross -- 22. A Comparison of AIDS Intervention Approaches for Injection Drug Users: Street Outreach Versus Drug Treatment Intake -- Are They Hitting the Same or Different Targets? / Arthur J. Bonito, E. Michael Bohlig, Michael L. Dennis, John A. Fairbank and J. Valley Rachal -- 23. Outreach to IDUs Not in Treatment / W. Wayne Wiebel, Pat Biernacki, Nina Mulia and Lisa Levin -- 24. Outreach to Injection Drug-Using Women / Michael Gross and Vivian Brown -- 25. Outreach to Sexual Partners / Dana E. Hunt, Theodore Hammett, Christine Smith, William Rhodes and Jose A. Pares-Avila.
• 26. Problem-Solving Skills Training: Addressing High-Risk Behaviors in Newark and Jersey City / Jerome J. Platt, Stephen D. Husband, Martin Y. Iguchi and Robert Baxter -- 27. Changing the Culture of Risk / Samuel R. Friedman, W. Wayne Wiebel, Benny Jose and Lisa Levin -- 28. Comparative Effectiveness of NADR Interventions / Richard C. Stephens, D. Dwayne Simpson, Susan L. Coyle and Clyde B. Mccoy / National Aids Research Consortium.

ISBN

• 0313283745
• 9780313283741

LCCN

92035550

OCLC

• ocm26763441
• 26763441
• SCSB-2009461

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library