Dealing with risk : a multidisciplinary study of injecting drug use, hepatitis C and other blood-borne viruses in Australia / Erica Southgate ... [et al.]
- Bib ID:
- 3113012
- Format:
- Book
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- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian National Council on Drugs, 2003
- xvi, 120 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1877018082
- Series:
- ANCD research paper ; 7.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Epidemiology of hepatitis C and HIV among Australian injecting drug users:
- a brief overview 3
- Carolyn Day
- Hepatitis C and Australian injecting drug users 3
- HIV and Australian injecting drug users 5
- Behaviour change among injecting drug users 6
- Reasons for the differences in H1V and HCV prevalence 6
- National needle and syringe program survey 9
- Margaret MacDonald, Julian Zhou Et Megan Buddle
- Introduction 9
- Methodological comment 9
- Results 10
- Time since and place of last injection with another's used syringe 10
- Re-use of someone else's syringe in the month before survey 13
- Youth 14
- Asian or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity 14
- Methadone or other pharmacological drug treatment 14
- Paid sex in last month 14
- Recent imprisonment 15
- Type of drug last injected 15
- Any outdoor injection in last month 15
- Participants from Kings Cross, New South Wales 15
- Participants from Biala, Queensland 16
- Participants from Cairns (Cairns NSP and Cairns Youth Link), Queensland 16
- Predictors of re-use of someone else's syringe in the last month 16
- Discussion 17
- Sydney case study: Kings Cross 20
- Erica Southgate Et Anne Maree Weatherall
- Introduction 20
- The concept of risk 20
- Kings Cross 22
- Method 24
- Qualitative methods 24
- Analysis 26
- Results: injecting drug use in Kings Cross 27
- Risk and the routines of everyday life 27
- The gift economy and risk 29
- The dynamics of group injecting episodes 31
- Risk and identity 37
- Environmental factors: injecting settings and physical conditions 39
- The spoon men: a case study in marginalisation and risk 42
- Folk harm reduction strategies, lay experts and peer education 43
- What's in a virus? Understandings of hepatitis C transmission and infection 45
- Concluding remarks 49
- Brisbane case study: Fortitude Valley / New Farm 51
- Geoffrey Woolcock
- Introduction 51
- Methodology 53
- Method 53
- Recruitment 53
- Ethics 53
- Analysis 54
- Limitations of study 54
- Results 55
- Usage patterns 55
- Scoring dynamics 55
- Group injecting 56
- High-risk incidences 57
- Discussion 59
- National focus groups 61
- Carolyn Day, Geoffrey Woolcock Et Anne Maree Weatherall
- Introduction 61
- Method 61
- 1 Settings 61
- 2 Recruitment and inclusion criteria 62
- 3 Schedule 62
- 4 Analysis 62
- Results 63
- Injecting and using drugs with others 63
- Gift economy 65
- Trust 65
- Poor injecting practices 66
- Injecting experience 67
- Recalling risky situations 68
- The heroin shortage 70
- Policing 70
- Anonymity and discrimination 71
- Overdose 72
- Sex work 73
- Hepatitis C awareness and health education 73
- Prison 74
- Conclusion 77
- Quality of life 79
- Jo Kimber Et Carolyn Day
- Introduction 79
- M ethods 80
- Participants 80
- Instrum ent 80
- Procedure 81
- D ata analysis 81
- Results 81
- Discussion 84
- Conclusions: dealing with risk - a synthesis of findings from this report. 85
- Erica Southgate, Carolyn Day, Kate Dolan, Jo Kimber, Susan McGuckin,
- Geoffrey Woolcock, Margaret MacDonald E Anne Maree Weatherall
- Recommendations 90
- Education messages 90
- Individual risk 91
- Social risk 91
- Structural and environmental risk 92
- Future research 93.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 94-109.
- Subject:
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- Available From:
- Australian National Council on Drugs, GPO Box 1552, Canberra ACT 2601.
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