Associations between national development indicators and the age profile of people who inject drugs: results from a global systematic review and meta-analysis

Associations between national development indicators and the age profile of people who inject drugs: results from a global systematic review and meta-analysis

Summary: Background: Globally, an estimated 15·6 million people inject drugs. We aimed to investigate global variation in the age profile of people who inject drugs (PWID), identify country-level factors associated with age of PWID, and assess the association between injecting drug use (IDU) in you...

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Main Authors: Lindsey A Hines, PhD, Adam Trickey, PhD, Janni Leung, PhD, Sarah Larney, PhD, Amy Peacock, PhD, Louisa Degenhardt, PhD, Samantha Colledge, BPsychSc, Matthew Hickman, PhD, Jason Grebely, PhD, Evan B Cunningham, PhD, Jack Stone, PhD, Kostyantyn Dumchev, MD, Paul Griffiths, MSc, Peter Vickerman, PhD, Richard P Mattick, PhD, Michael Lynskey, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X19304620

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