Evidence of telescoping in females across two decades of US treatment admissions for injection drug use: 2000–2020

Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) have an increased risk of soft tissue infection, drug overdose and death. Females may be particularly vulnerable due to barriers to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment entry, stigma, and telescoping, or the greater severity in substance use-related comor...

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Main Authors: Nicholas L. Bormann, Benjamin Miskle, Paul Holdefer, Stephan Arndt, Alison C. Lynch, Andrea N. Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-12-01
Series:Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772724623000744