Fairbairn, Nadia, Kaplan, Karyn, Hayashi, Kanna, Suwannawong, Paisan, Lai, Calvin, Wood, Evan, ...
Abstract Background Drug policy in Thailand has relied heavily on law enforcement-based approaches. Qualitative reports indicate that police in Thailand have resorted to planting drugs on suspected...
Milloy, M-J, Kerr, Thomas, Buxton, Jane, Montaner, Julio, Wood, Evan
Abstract Background Given concerns over rising use of methamphetamine, especially among street-involved youth, and the links between exposure to the correctional system and the production of...
Unstable housing and hepatitis C incidence among injection drug users in a Canadian setting (2009)
Kim, Christina, Kerr, Thomas, Li, Kathy, Zhang, Ruth, Tyndall, Mark W, Montaner, Julio SG, ...
Abstract Background There has emerged growing recognition of the link between housing and health. Since Vancouver, Canada has had increasing concerns with homelessness brought about by urban renewal...
Harm reduction in hospitals: is it time? (2009)
Rachlis, Beth S, Kerr, Thomas, Montaner, Julio SG, Wood, Evan
Abstract Among persons who inject drugs (IDU), illicit drug use often occurs in hospitals and contributes to patient expulsion and/or high rates of leaving against medical advice (AMA) when...
Drug use patterns among Thai illicit drug injectors amidst increased police presence (2009)
Werb, Dan, Hayashi, Kanna, Fairbairn, Nadia, Kaplan, Karyn, Suwannawong, Paisan, Lai, Calvin, ...
Abstract Thailand has traditionally pursued an aggressive enforcement-based anti-illicit drug policy in an effort to make the country "drug-free." In light of this ongoing approach, we sought to...
Evan Wood, Mark W. Tyndall, Ruth Zhang, Thomas Kerr
doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01818.x
Evan Wood, Patricia M. Spittal, Will Small, Thomas Kerr, Kathy Li, Robert S. Hogg, ...
Background: Law enforcement is often used in an effort to reduce the social, community and health-related harms of illicit drug use by injection drug users (IDUs). There are, however, few data on the...
Injection drug use among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting (2009)
Kerr, Thomas, Marshall, Brandon DL, Miller, Cari, Shannon, Kate, Zhang, Ruth, Montaner, Julio SG, ...
Abstract Background Street-involved youth contend with an array of health and social challenges, including elevated rates of blood-borne infections and mortality. In addition, there has been growing...
Milloy, M-J S, Buxton, Jane, Wood, Evan, Li, Kathy, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract Background While incarceration has consistently been associated with a higher risk of HIV infection for individuals who use injection drugs (IDU), the effect of incarceration on the...
Small, Will, Fast, Danya, Krusi, Andrea, Wood, Evan, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract Background Street-involved youth are a population at risk of adopting injection as a route of administration, and preventing the transition to injection drug use among street youth...
Marshall, Brandon DL, Kerr, Thomas, Shoveller, Jean A, Montaner, Julio SG, Wood, Evan
Abstract Background The prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among street-involved youth greatly exceed that of the general adolescent population; however, little is known...
Lloyd-Smith, Elisa, Wood, Evan, Zhang, Ruth, Tyndall, Mark W, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract Background Cutaneous injection-related infections (CIRI), such as abscesses and cellulitis, are common and preventable among injection drug users (IDU). However, risk factors for CIRI have...
Marshall, Brandon DL, Kerr, Thomas, Livingstone, Chris, Li, Kathy, Montaner, Julio SG, Wood, Evan
Abstract Aboriginal people experience a disproportionate burden of HIV infection among the adult population in Canada; however, less is known regarding the prevalence and characteristics of HIV...
Fast, Danya, Small, Will, Wood, Evan, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract Background Unsafe injection practices are prevalent among injection drug users (IDU) and have resulted in numerous forms of drug-related harm including HIV/HCV transmission and other...
HIV transmission as a result of drug market violence: a case report (2008)
Small, Will, Kerr, Thomas, Wood, Evan
Abstract While unprotected sexual intercourse and the use of contaminated injection equipment account for the majority of HIV infections worldwide, other routes of HIV transmission have received less...
DeBeck, Kora, Wood, Evan, Zhang, Ruth, Tyndall, Mark, Montaner, Julio, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract In various settings, drug market policing strategies have been found to have unintended negative effects on health service use among injection drug users (IDU). This has prompted calls for...
Werb, Daniel, Kerr, Thomas, Small, Will, Li, Kathy, Montaner, Julio, Wood, Evan
Background Recent policy announcements in Canada and the United States may potentially affect the risk environment for HIV transmission among incarcerated injection drug users (IDU). We sought to...
Rates of inappropriate antiretroviral prescription among injection drug users (2007)
Wood, Evan, Hogg, Robert S, Kerr, Thomas, Bonner, Simon, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Palepu, Anita, ...
Abstract Background Although the survival benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the treatment of HIV infection are well established, the clinical management of HIV disease continues to present...
Factors associated with premature mortality among young injection drug users in Vancouver (2007)
Miller, Cari L, Kerr, Thomas, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Li, Kathy, Wood, Evan
Abstract Background Young injection drug users (IDUs) may be at increased risk of premature mortality due to the health risks associated with injection drug use including overdoses and infections....
Stoltz, Jo-Anne, Wood, Evan, Small, Will, Li, Kathy, Tyndall, Mark, Montaner, Julio, ...
Injection drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to serious health complications resulting from unsafe injection practices. We examined whether the use of a supervised safer injection facility (SIF)...
Stoltz, Jo-Anne, Wood, Evan, Small, Will, Li, Kathy, Tyndall, Mark, Montaner, Julio, ...
Injection drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to serious health complications resulting from unsafe injection practices. We examined whether the use of a supervised safer injection facility (SIF)...
Stoltz, Jo-Anne, Wood, Evan, Small, Will, Li, Kathy, Tyndall, Mark, Montaner, Julio, ...
Injection drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to serious health complications resulting from unsafe injection practices. We examined whether the use of a supervised safer injection facility (SIF)...
Tyndall, Mark W, Wood, Evan, Zhang, Ruth, Lai, Calvin, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract North America's first government sanctioned medically supervised injection facility (SIF) was opened during September 2003 in Vancouver, Canada. This was in response to a large open public...
Abstract Throughout most of the world, the primary response to the health and social impacts of illicit drug use has been to intensify the enforcement of drug laws. The consequences of this policy...
Wood, Evan, Stoltz, Jo-Anne, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract Many Canadian cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose epidemics among injection drug users (IDU). These health concerns have recently been exacerbated by the...
Lima, Viviane D, Kretz, Patricia, Palepu, Anita, Bonner, Simon, Kerr, Thomas, Moore, David, ...
Abstract Background Although the impact of Aboriginal status on HIV incidence, HIV disease progression, and access to treatment has been investigated previously, little is known about the...
Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W, Lai, Calvin, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) recently opened in Vancouver, Canada. One of the concerns prior to the SIF's opening was that the facility might...
Initiation of opiate addiction in a Canadian prison: a case report (2006)
Wood, Evan, Lim, Ronald, Kerr, Thomas
Abstract Background In North America, the harms of illicit drug use have been responded to primarily through law enforcement interventions. This strategy has resulted in record populations of...
Miller, Cari L, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Spittal, Patricia M, Kerr, Thomas, Li, Kathy, Schechter, Martin T, ...
Abstract Objectives Recent reports have suggested that Aboriginal and American Indian people are at elevated risk of HIV infection. We undertook the present study to compare socio-demographic and...
Shannon, Kate, Ishida, Tomiye, Morgan, Robert, Bear, Arthur, Oleson, Megan, Kerr, Thomas, ...
Abstract There is growing evidence of the public health and community harms associated with crack cocaine smoking, particularly the risk of blood-borne transmission through non-parenteral routes. In...
Lima, Viviane, Kretz, Patricia, Palepu, Anita, Bonner, Simon, Kerr, Thomas, Moore, David, ...
Affiliation: Mark Daniel: Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal et Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
HIV Prevalence among Aboriginal British Columbians (2005)
Hogg, Robert S, Strathdee, Steffanie, Kerr, Thomas, Wood, Evan, Remis, Robert
Abstract Context There is considerable concern about the spread of HIV disease among Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia. Objective To estimate the number of Aboriginal British Columbians infected...
Prevalence and correlates of abscesses among a cohort of injection drug users (2005)
Lloyd-Smith, Elisa, Kerr, Thomas, Hogg, Robert S, Li, Kathy, Montaner, Julio SG, Wood, Evan
Abstract Recent studies have indicated that injection-related infections such as abscesses and cellulitis account for the majority of emergency room visits and acute hospitalizations accrued by local...
Wood, Evan, Kerr, Thomas, Lloyd-Smith, Elisa, Buchner, Chris, Marsh, David C, Montaner, Julio SG, ...
Abstract Many Canadian cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose epidemics among injection drug users (IDUs). In particular, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and hepatitis C...
Wood, Evan, Li, Kathy, Miller, Cari L, Hogg, Robert S., Montaner, Julio S. G., Schechter, Martin T, ...
Background The identification of individuals at the highest risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is critical for targeting prevention strategies. We evaluated self-perceived risk of...
To Serve and Protect: A Report on Policing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (2002)
Howard, Tim, Jackson, Michael, Kerr, Thomas, Pacey, Katrina, Richardson, John, Tyndall, Mark
Report of Pivot Legal Society, an organization that engages in law reform; legal education; and strategic legal action to advance the interests of marginalized persons in Vancouver, BC. This 2002...
Master's project (M.S. in Education)--Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1969.
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Safer injection facilities for injection drug users: the debate continues
Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W., Kerr, Thomas, Spittal, Patricia M., O'Shaughnessy, Michael V., Schechter, Martin T.
Displacement of Canada's largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown
Wood, Evan, Spittal, Patricia M., Small, Will, Kerr, Thomas, Li, Kathy, Hogg, Robert S., ...
Wood, Evan, Kerr, Thomas, Lloyd-Smith, Elisa, Buchner, Chris, Marsh, David C, Montaner, Julio SG, ...
Many Canadian cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose epidemics among injection drug users (IDUs). In particular, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and hepatitis C Virus...
Reason and rights in global drug control policy
Elliott, Richard, Csete, Joanne, Palepu, Anita, Kerr, Thomas
Prevalence and correlates of abscesses among a cohort of injection drug users
Lloyd-Smith, Elisa, Kerr, Thomas, Hogg, Robert S, Li, Kathy, Montaner, Julio SG, Wood, Evan
Recent studies have indicated that injection-related infections such as abscesses and cellulitis account for the majority of emergency room visits and acute hospitalizations accrued by local...
Kerr, Thomas, Stoltz, Jo-Anne, Tyndall, Mark, Li, Kathy, Zhang, Ruth, Montaner, Julio, ...
Problem Illicit use of injected drugs is linked with high rates of HIV infection and fatal overdose, as well as community concerns about public drug use. Supervised injecting facilities have been...
HIV Prevalence among Aboriginal British Columbians
Hogg, Robert S, Strathdee, Steffanie, Kerr, Thomas, Wood, Evan, Remis, Robert
Shannon, Kate, Ishida, Tomiye, Morgan, Robert, Bear, Arthur, Oleson, Megan, Kerr, Thomas, ...
There is growing evidence of the public health and community harms associated with crack cocaine smoking, particularly the risk of blood-borne transmission through non-parenteral routes. In response,...
Elevated rates of HIV infection among young Aboriginal injection drug users in a Canadian setting
Miller, Cari L, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Spittal, Patricia M, Kerr, Thomas, Li, Kathy, Schechter, Martin T, ...
Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W, Lai, Calvin, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) recently opened in Vancouver, Canada. One of the concerns prior to the SIF's opening was that the facility might lead to a...
Evaluating methamphetamine use and risks of injection initiation among street youth: the ARYS study
Wood, Evan, Stoltz, Jo-Anne, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
Many Canadian cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose epidemics among injection drug users (IDU). These health concerns have recently been exacerbated by the increasing...
Recent incarceration independently associated with syringe sharing by injection drug users.
Wood, Evan, Li, Kathy, Small, Will, Montaner, Julio S, Schechter, Martin T, Kerr, Thomas
OBJECTIVES: Few prospective studies are available on the relationship between incarceration and HIV risk among injection drug users (IDUs). The authors evaluated self-reported rates of syringe...
Throughout most of the world, the primary response to the health and social impacts of illicit drug use has been to intensify the enforcement of drug laws. The consequences of this policy approach...
Summary of findings from the evaluation of a pilot medically supervised safer injecting facility
Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W., Montaner, Julio S., Kerr, Thomas
In many cities, infectious disease and overdose epidemics are occurring among illicit injection drug users (IDUs). To reduce these concerns, Vancouver opened a supervised safer injecting facility in...
Safer injection facilities for injection drug users: the debate continues
Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W., Kerr, Thomas, Spittal, Patricia M., O'Shaughnessy, Michael V., Schechter, Martin T.
Displacement of Canada's largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown
Wood, Evan, Spittal, Patricia M., Small, Will, Kerr, Thomas, Li, Kathy, Hogg, Robert S., ...
Wood, Evan, Kerr, Thomas, Lloyd-Smith, Elisa, Buchner, Chris, Marsh, David C, Montaner, Julio SG, ...
Many Canadian cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose epidemics among injection drug users (IDUs). In particular, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and hepatitis C Virus...
Reason and rights in global drug control policy
Elliott, Richard, Csete, Joanne, Palepu, Anita, Kerr, Thomas
Prevalence and correlates of abscesses among a cohort of injection drug users
Lloyd-Smith, Elisa, Kerr, Thomas, Hogg, Robert S, Li, Kathy, Montaner, Julio SG, Wood, Evan
Recent studies have indicated that injection-related infections such as abscesses and cellulitis account for the majority of emergency room visits and acute hospitalizations accrued by local...
Kerr, Thomas, Stoltz, Jo-Anne, Tyndall, Mark, Li, Kathy, Zhang, Ruth, Montaner, Julio, ...
Problem Illicit use of injected drugs is linked with high rates of HIV infection and fatal overdose, as well as community concerns about public drug use. Supervised injecting facilities have been...
HIV Prevalence among Aboriginal British Columbians
Hogg, Robert S, Strathdee, Steffanie, Kerr, Thomas, Wood, Evan, Remis, Robert
Shannon, Kate, Ishida, Tomiye, Morgan, Robert, Bear, Arthur, Oleson, Megan, Kerr, Thomas, ...
There is growing evidence of the public health and community harms associated with crack cocaine smoking, particularly the risk of blood-borne transmission through non-parenteral routes. In response,...
Elevated rates of HIV infection among young Aboriginal injection drug users in a Canadian setting
Miller, Cari L, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Spittal, Patricia M, Kerr, Thomas, Li, Kathy, Schechter, Martin T, ...
Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W, Lai, Calvin, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) recently opened in Vancouver, Canada. One of the concerns prior to the SIF's opening was that the facility might lead to a...
Evaluating methamphetamine use and risks of injection initiation among street youth: the ARYS study
Wood, Evan, Stoltz, Jo-Anne, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
Many Canadian cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose epidemics among injection drug users (IDU). These health concerns have recently been exacerbated by the increasing...
Recent incarceration independently associated with syringe sharing by injection drug users.
Wood, Evan, Li, Kathy, Small, Will, Montaner, Julio S, Schechter, Martin T, Kerr, Thomas
OBJECTIVES: Few prospective studies are available on the relationship between incarceration and HIV risk among injection drug users (IDUs). The authors evaluated self-reported rates of syringe...
Throughout most of the world, the primary response to the health and social impacts of illicit drug use has been to intensify the enforcement of drug laws. The consequences of this policy approach...
Summary of findings from the evaluation of a pilot medically supervised safer injecting facility
Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W., Montaner, Julio S., Kerr, Thomas
In many cities, infectious disease and overdose epidemics are occurring among illicit injection drug users (IDUs). To reduce these concerns, Vancouver opened a supervised safer injecting facility in...
Tyndall, Mark W, Wood, Evan, Zhang, Ruth, Lai, Calvin, Montaner, Julio SG, Kerr, Thomas
North America's first government sanctioned medically supervised injection facility (SIF) was opened during September 2003 in Vancouver, Canada. This was in response to a large open public drug...
Rates of inappropriate antiretroviral prescription among injection drug users
Wood, Evan, Hogg, Robert S, Kerr, Thomas, Bonner, Simon, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Palepu, Anita, ...
Factors associated with premature mortality among young injection drug users in Vancouver
Miller, Cari L, Kerr, Thomas, Strathdee, Steffanie A, Li, Kathy, Wood, Evan
Rate of methadone use among Aboriginal opioid injection drug users
Wood, Evan, Montaner, Julio S., Li, Kathy, Barney, Lucy, Tyndall, Mark W., Kerr, Thomas
Kuyper, Laura M, Collins, Courtney LC, Kerr, Thomas, Hogg, Robert S, Li, Kathy, Tyndall, Mark W, ...
Wood, Evan, Tyndall, Mark W., Qui, Zhenguo, Zhang, Ruth, Montaner, Julio S. G., Kerr, Thomas
In 2003, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, opened North America’s first government-sanctioned safer injecting facility, where injection drug users (IDUs) can inject preobtained illicit drugs...
DeBeck, Kora, Wood, Evan, Zhang, Ruth, Tyndall, Mark, Montaner, Julio, Kerr, Thomas
In various settings, drug market policing strategies have been found to have unintended negative effects on health service use among injection drug users (IDU). This has prompted calls for more...
HIV transmission as a result of drug market violence: a case report
Small, Will, Kerr, Thomas, Wood, Evan
While unprotected sexual intercourse and the use of contaminated injection equipment account for the majority of HIV infections worldwide, other routes of HIV transmission have received less...
Marshall, Brandon DL, Kerr, Thomas, Livingstone, Chris, Li, Kathy, Montaner, Julio SG, Wood, Evan
Aboriginal people experience a disproportionate burden of HIV infection among the adult population in Canada; however, less is known regarding the prevalence and characteristics of HIV positivity...
Wood, Evan, Kerr, Thomas, Marshall, Brandon D L, Li, Kathy, Zhang, Ruth, Hogg, Robert S, ...
Objective To examine the relation between plasma HIV-1 RNA concentrations in the community and HIV incidence among injecting drug users.
Injection drug use among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting
Kerr, Thomas, Marshall, Brandon DL, Miller, Cari, Shannon, Kate, Zhang, Ruth, Montaner, Julio SG, ...
Kerr, Thomas, Tyndall, Mark W., Zhang, Ruth, Lai, Calvin, Montaner, Julio S.G., Wood, Evan
There have been concerns that safer injecting facilities may promote initiation into injection drug use. We examined length of injecting career and circumstances surrounding initiation into injection...
Drug use patterns among Thai illicit drug injectors amidst increased police presence
Werb, Dan, Hayashi, Kanna, Fairbairn, Nadia, Kaplan, Karyn, Suwannawong, Paisan, Lai, Calvin, ...
Thailand has traditionally pursued an aggressive enforcement-based anti-illicit drug policy in an effort to make the country "drug-free." In light of this ongoing approach, we sought to assess...
Unstable housing and hepatitis C incidence among injection drug users in a Canadian setting
Kim, Christina, Kerr, Thomas, Li, Kathy, Zhang, Ruth, Tyndall, Mark W, Montaner, Julio SG, ...
Harm reduction in hospitals: is it time?
Rachlis, Beth S, Kerr, Thomas, Montaner, Julio SG, Wood, Evan
Among persons who inject drugs (IDU), illicit drug use often occurs in hospitals and contributes to patient expulsion and/or high rates of leaving against medical advice (AMA) when withdrawal is...