Associations between national development indicators and the age profile of people who inject drugs: results from a global systematic review and meta-analysis

• Main Authors: Lindsey A Hines, PhD (Author), Adam Trickey, PhD (Author), Janni Leung, PhD (Author), Sarah Larney, PhD (Author), Amy Peacock, PhD (Author), Louisa Degenhardt, PhD (Author), Samantha Colledge, BPsychSc (Author), Matthew Hickman, PhD (Author), Jason Grebely, PhD (Author), Evan B Cunningham, PhD (Author), Jack Stone, PhD (Author), Kostyantyn Dumchev, MD (Author), Paul Griffiths, MSc (Author), Peter Vickerman, PhD (Author), Richard P Mattick, PhD (Author), Michael Lynskey, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Globally, an estimated 15·6 million people inject drugs. We aimed to investigate global variation in the age profile of people who inject drugs (PWID), identify country-level factors associated with age of PWID, and assess the association between injecting drug use (IDU) in youn...