The influence of poly-drug use patterns on the association between opioid agonist treatment engagement and injecting initiation assistance

• Main Authors: Stephanie A. Meyers-Pantele (Author), Maria Luisa Mittal (Author), Sonia Jain (Author), Shelly Sun (Author), Indhu Rammohan (Author), Nadia Fairbairn (Author), M-J Milloy (Author), Kora DeBeck (Author), Kanna Hayashi (Author), Dan Werb (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Evidence suggests people who inject drugs (PWID) prescribed opioid agonist treatment (OAT) are less likely to provide injection drug use (IDU) initiation assistance. We investigated the association between OAT engagement and providing IDU initiation assistance across poly-drug us...