4125.0 A Mosaic of Issues in Drug Using Populations

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 12:30 PM
Poster

Board 1
Among long-term crack smokers, who avoids and who succumbs to cocaine addiction?
Russel S. Falck, MA, Jichuan Wang, PhD and Robert G. Carlson, PhD
Board 2
Severe mental health distress among young adult prescription opioid abusers
Steven P. Kurtz, PhD, Jonathan K. Kish, MPH, Hilary L. Surratt, PhD and James A. Inciardi, PhD
Board 3
Meta-analytic evidence of HIV behavioral prevention interventions for drug users
Salaam Semaan, DrPH, Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD and Wayne D. Johnson, MSPH
Board 4
Injecting drug users' self-reported understanding of their blood borne virus status – how reliable is it? A study of drug users in North London, UK
Daniel Swerdlow, BSc (Hons) and Surinder Singh, MB BS
Board 5
Modeling longitudinal trajectories of ketamine injection among young injecting drug users
Stephen E. Lankenau, PhD, Jennifer Jackson Bloom, MPH, Bill Sanders, PhD and Dodi Hathazi, BS
Board 6
Acceptability of hepatitis B vaccine among drug users in a community-based sample
Silvia Amesty, MD, MPH, MSEd, Ebele O. Benjamin, MPH, Monique Kusick, Vijay Nandi, MPH, David Vlahov, PhD and Danielle C. Ompad, PhD
Board 7
Respondent Driven Sampling: Optimizing peer recruitment by selecting seeds with recruitment potential, NYC (2006-2007)
Abby E. Rudolph, MPH, Kellee White, MPH, Ebele O. Benjamin, MPH, Natalie Crawford, MPH, Kandice Jones, MPH and Crystal M. Fuller, PhD
Board 8
Reasons for refusing free hepatitis B vaccine in a community-based sample of drug users
Monique Kusick, Silvia Amesty, MD, MPH, MSEd, Ebele O. Benjamin, MPH, Vijay Nandi, MPH, Danielle C. Ompad, PhD and David Vlahov, PhD
Board 9
Immediate vs. delayed availability of free hepatitis B virus vaccine in a NYC research setting
Ebele O. Benjamin, MPH, Silvia Amesty, MD, MPH, MSEd, Monique Kusick, Vijay Nandi, MPH, David Vlahov, PhD and Danielle C. Ompad, PhD
Board 10
Voices Boricuas: Health perspectives of injecting drug users in Puerto Rico and Massachusetts
Luz M. López, PhD, MPH, MSW, Therese Fitzgerald, PhD, MSW, LCSW and Lena Lundgren, PhD

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