Mehrdad Khezri, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Mohammad Karamouzian, Hamid Sharifi, Nima Ghalehkhani, Ghazal Mousavian, Soheil Mehmandoost, Matin Bazargani, Ali Mohammad Hosseinpour, Marzieh Mahboubi, Stefan Baral, Mostafa Shokoohi
BACKGROUND: Injecting in public places may increase the risk of drug and health-related harms among people who inject drugs (PWID). We examined the prevalence of public injecting and associations with non-fatal overdose, needle/syringe sharing, sexual health, and mental health among PWID in Iran. METHODS: Using respondent-driven sampling, we recruited 2684 PWID from 11 major cities between July 2019 and March 2020. We defined public injecting as injecting primarily in public places, such as streets, parks, or abandoned buildings...
August 19, 2022: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment