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Needle Sharing Among Intravenous Drug Abusers: National and International Perspectives



NIDA Research Monograph, Number 80 [Printed in 1988]

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Foreword-----v

Participants-----ix

Needle Sharing Among Intravenous Drug Abusers: An Overview-----1
Robert J. Battjes and Roy W. Pickens

Overview: HIV Infection Among Intravenous Drug Abusers in the United States and Europe-----7
Harry W. Haverkos

Needle Sharing and Street Behavior in Response to AIDS in New York City-----18
William Hopkins

The Ethnography of Needle Sharing Among Intravenous Drug Users and Implications for Public Policies and Intervention Strategies-----28
Harvey W. Feldman and Patrick Biernacki

Mexican-American Intravenous Drug Users' Needle-Sharing Practices: Implications for AIDS Prevention-----40
Alberto G. Mata and Jaime S. Jorquez

Amsterdam's Drug Policy and Its Implications for Controlling Needle Sharing-----59
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 Users in Britain-----75
Robert Michael Power

Injecting Equipment Exchange Schemes in England and Scotland-----89
Gerry V. Stimson

Sharing Needles and the Spread of HIV in ltaly's Addict Population-----100
Enrico Tempesta and Massimo Di Giannantonio

Drug Addiction and AIDS in France in 1987-----114
Claude Olievenstein

Intravenous Drug Abuse and AIDS Transmission: Federal and State Laws Regulating Needle Availability-----119
Chris B. Pascal

Combining Ethnographic and Epidemiologic Methods in Targeted AIDS Interventions: The Chicago Model-----137
W. Wayne Wiebel

Why Bleach? Development of a Strategy To Combat HIV Contagion Among San Francisco Intravenous Drug Users-----151
John A. Newmeyer

The Sharing of Drug Injection Equipment and the AIDS Epidemic in New York City: The First Decade-----180
Don C. Des Jarlais, Samuel R. Friedman, Jo L. Sotheran, and Rand Stoneburner

Needle Sharing Among Intravenous Drug Abusers: Future Directions-----176
Robert J. Battjes and Roy W. Pickens

List of NIDA Research Monographs-----184




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