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Exploring performance and image enhancing drug user-facilitated harm reduction information in online forums. Read more
Monitoring drug trends in the digital environment: New methods, challenges and the opportunities provided by automated approaches
Developments in information technology have impacted on all areas of modern life and in particular facilitated the growth of globalisation in commerce and communication. Within the drugs area this means that both drugs discourse and drug markets have become increasingly digitally enabled. In response to this, new methods are being developed that attempt to research and monitor the digital environment. Read more
Technologies for Opioid Use Disorder Management: Mobile App Search and Scoping Review
Advances in technology engender the investigation of technological solutions to opioid use disorder (OUD). However, in comparison to chronic disease management, the application of mobile health (mHealth) to OUD has been limited. Read more
Use of mobile phones to buy and sell illicit drugs in Australia
This study explores how police detainees in Australia use mobile phones within the illicit drug market. Read more
Netreach Work: Implementing Web-based Harm Reduction Interventions with Online Drug Users
The globalisation process and new technologies paved the way for the emergence of empowered and global online drug cultures and shaped the way people purchase and use drugs, search for drug information, and discuss and share drug use practices and knowledge with their peers. This growing reality is opening up a new field of intervention, and harm reduction professionals should equip themselves to respond to this reality. Read more
New psychoactive substances in Eurasia: a qualitative study of people who use drugs and harm reduction services in six countries
This study examines the use of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and the harm reduction response in six Eurasian countries: Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia. The aim is to identify current patterns of NPS use and related harms in each country through recording the perspectives and lived experience of people who use drugs and people who provide harm reduction services in order to inform the harm reduction response. Read more
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