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12726791

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-5-2
pubmed:abstractText
This paper investigates changes in injecting and shared use of needles and syringes among 732 drug misusers recruited to residential and community treatment programmes as part of the National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS). Specifically, it investigates whether reductions in these behaviours were due to a move away from injecting among drug users or whether they could be accounted for by drug users becoming abstinent. Injecting and sharing of injecting equipment were substantially reduced after treatment. Outcomes were due to reduced sharing among injectors, reduced injecting among continuing users and to users becoming abstinent. Clients from residential programmes were more likely to be abstinent at follow-up: methadone clients were more likely to be injecting but not sharing. Abstinence and intermediate risk reduction outcomes were achieved by many drug injectors from both treatment settings. Both outcomes confer benefits, though the benefits of abstinence are greater. Users who were injectors at intake but who had stopped injecting at follow-up consistently achieved superior outcomes across a range of problem behaviours.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0306-4603
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
785-93
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Reduction or cessation of injecting risk behaviours? Treatment outcomes at 1-year follow-up.
pubmed:affiliation
National Addiction Centre, Maudsley Hospital, 4 Windsor Walk, London, SE5 8AF, UK. m.gossop@iop.kcl.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Multicenter Study