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Continuity and change: high-risk drug use and drug treatment in Europe 2014

Meeting proceedings include the programme, summaries of all sessions and abstracts of presentations presented during the EMCDDA event incorporating the Treatment Demand and High-Risk Drug Use/Problem Drug Use key epidemiological indicators expert meetings. This meeting took place from the 23 to 26...

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Project to explore potential approaches to missing data on problem drug use in EU27 and Norway, including interpolation and / or qualitative information based on available estimates and other routinely collected data

This report outlines the results of a small study that sought to examine whether interpolation methods, such as regression models, can be used to provide PDU prevalence estimates for years where prevalence estimates are not readily available. The aims of the study were to explore routinely...

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Estimating the prevalence of drug injection using a multiplier method based on a register of new HIV diagnoses

This scientific article was one of the 2011 EMCDDA scientific award winners, which celebrates scientific writing and distinguishes high-quality research in the field of illicit drugs.

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HIV among injecting drug users in Europe: increasing trends in the East

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among injecting drug users (IDUs) shows different developments in different parts of the European region. In the countries of the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the rates of reported newly diagnosed cases of HIV...

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European Network to Develop Policy Relevant Models and Socio-Economic Analyses of Drug Use, Consequences and Interventions Final report: Part 2 – Prevalence of problem drug use at the national level

The basic objective of the project work was to explore and to develop the multivariate indicator method. The method introduced by Person, Retka and Woodward (1977, 1978) and modified by Mariani (1999) estimates drug use by combining several population-standardized indicators directly...

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European Network to Develop Policy Relevant Models and Socio-Economic Analyses of Drug Use, Consequences and Interventions Final report: Part 4 – Time trends and incidence of problem drug use

In the 1st 12-month period Kaplan Meyer and Cox Regression models were used to estimate the latency time between first drug use and first treatment. The group applied a Back-Calculation Model to estimate the incidence of problem drug use from the observed incidence in treatment, using the latency...

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