Negative experiences of pain and withdrawal create barriers to abscess care for people who inject heroin. A mixed methods analysis.

Summers, Phillip J; Hellman, Julia L; MacLean, Madison R; Rees, Vaughan W; Wilkes, Michael S

Summers, Phillip J; Hellman, Julia L; MacLean, Madison R; Rees, Vaughan W; Wilkes, Michael S.

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Summers PJ; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Building 1, Boston, MA 02115, USA; UC Davis School of Medicine, 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. Electronic address: pjsummers@ucdavis.edu.
Hellman JL; UC Davis School of Medicine, 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
MacLean MR; Department of Health Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Rees VW; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Wilkes MS; UC Davis School of Medicine, 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.

Drug Alcohol Depend ; 190: 200-208, 2018 09 01.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30055424

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Heroin; Pain/psychology; Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology; Soft Tissue Infections/psychology; Substance Abuse, Intravenous/psychology; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome/psychology; Abscess/epidemiology; Abscess/psychology; Abscess/therapy; Adult; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Pain/epidemiology; Pain Management/methods; Prejudice/psychology; Retrospective Studies; Social Stigma; Soft Tissue Infections/epidemiology; Soft Tissue Infections/therapy; Substance Abuse, Intravenous/epidemiology; Substance Abuse, Intravenous/therapy; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome/epidemiology; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome/therapy

Key words

Barriers to health care; Harm reduction; Health-seeking behaviors; Heroin; Injection drug use; Opiate withdrawal; Pain control; Skin and soft tissue infections

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Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pain / Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Soft Tissue Infections / Heroin Type of study: Observational_studies / Prevalence_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Language: En Year: 2018 Type: Article

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