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Effects of police confiscation of illicit drugs and syringes among injection drug users in Vancouver

Daniel Werb, Evan Wood, Will Small, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Kathy Li, Julio Montaner, Thomas Kerr

International Journal of Drug Policy · 2007 · 151 citations · 38 references

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Social SciencesCriminologyPolicingSubstance Use DisordersSubstance Use PreventionDrug CrimeDrug EnforcementDrug TraffickingSubstance Abuse PreventionDrug Abuse EpidemiologyDrug Arrest PatternsDrug Enforcement PolicyDrug Use EpidemiologyDrug ViolenceInjecting Drug UsePolicing Of Drug Possession

References

38

Release from Prison — A High Risk of Death for Former Inmates

Ingrid A. Binswanger, Marc F. Stern, Richard A. Deyo et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2007 · 1.7K citations · Full text

Public Health, Demography, Population Health Sciences +12

The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users

Tim Rhodes, Merrill Singer, Philippe Bourgois et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 2005 · 937 citations

Public Health, Infectious Disease Control, Hiv Prevention +11

Homelessness and Health

Stephen W. Hwang · Journal of Heredity · 2002 · 714 citations · Full text

Public Health, Psychology, Health Psychology +7

Intensive injection cocaine use as the primary risk factor in the Vancouver HIV-1 epidemic

Mark Tyndall, Sue Currie, Patricia M. Spittal et al. · AIDS · 2003 · 377 citations

Public Health, Infectious Disease Control, Behavioral Epidemiology +13

Policing and public health: Law enforcement and harm minimization in a street-level drug market

Lisa Maher · The British Journal of Criminology · 1999 · 351 citations

Social Sciences, Criminology, Crime +15