noted an increasing temporal trend among drug users for AIDS and over- ...
social security number. From each death certificate, we abstracted the date ...
overdose and trauma deaths are routinely required to undergo investigation .....
Given the high rate of HIV infection among IDUs in Milan, misclassification bias
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There were 332 deaths among 4962 drug users who were followed for 21 130 person-
years. This mortality rate. (1.57 per 100 person-years) was ... deficiency
followed by a high risk of opportunistic ..... Number of deaths by HIV antibody
status. HIV-untested .... nearly all of the deaths from trauma and overdose were
...

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Major causes of death among injecting drug users ... unclear the extent to which
homicides or other trauma deaths are due to illicit drug use.4 .... but the
large number of prevalent cases may still produce a high burden of mortality.84
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high school education, or better. Similarly, among the adults, 70-0% of the
fathers .... a parental death occurred was between 16 and 18. Personal Trauma
.... Anyone who has the opportunity to work closely with a number of drug
addicts ...

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1 Dec 2009 ... Trauma, such as a car crash, caused two-thirds of deaths among drug users ...
Board (HRB) reported 885 drug users died during the seven-year period. ... Given
the numbers driving at the time of death, Dr Lyons said Ireland ... unlikely to
discuss depression · High did-not-attend rates continue ...

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trauma can have direct effects on the brain, and brain dysfunction can affect
the ... Drug related deaths will increase in number rather than decrease. The
hidden message ... deaths among drug users. BMJ 2001;322:749-50. (31. March.)
Standard .... high quality treatment. Supporting general practitioners through
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Death rates for each interval were calculated as the number of deaths .... We
found a high prevalence of hepatitis C infection and injection drug use in ...
mortality in drug users in Italy and found that trauma, overdose, .... J.J.
Goedert, G. Pizza, F.M. Gritty et al., Mortality among drug users in the AIDS
era. ...

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IVDU = Intravenous drug users. n = Number of hospitalizations. ... Discharge
data for 344 hospitalizations among 216 IVDU* for treatment of infectious
diseases ... (2 for whom death was possibly infection related, 1 who died of a
trauma). .... The strength of this study was the high number of hospitalizations
that ...

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Most bacterial infections among drug users are caused by the subject's own ....
In addition to the role of hygiene, living conditions, and tissue trauma, .....
Unsuspected recent transmission of tuberculosis among high-risk groups: ...
illness and death among injecting-drug users -- Scotland, Ireland, and England.
...

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depression, mental illness and past trauma.9 ... 15 syringes per drug user per
year, not nearly enough to meet the number ... Sexual transmission of HIV-1
among injection drug users in San Francisco, USA: risk-factor analysis. ... The
effect of syringe exchange on high-risk injection drug users: a cohort study.
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