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Drug abuser

Known as: Abuser, Drug, Drug Abusers, Drug Users 
People who take drugs for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. The drugs may be legal or illegal, but their use often results in adverse medical… 
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Review
2001
Review
2001
Quality Indicators for Appropriate Medication Use in Vulnerable Elders
Medications are a centrally important aspect of the care of elderly patients, especially vulnerable elders, and are the final… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
The evolving molecular epidemiology of HIV‐1 envelope subtypes in injecting drug users in Bangkok, Thailand: implications for HIV vaccine trials
ObjectiveTo genetically characterize HIV-1 strains in injecting drug users (IDU) in Bangkok, Thailand in 1994, and compare these… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Drug Users versus Outreach Workers in Combating Aids: Preliminary Results of a Peer-Driven Intervention
AIDS prevention efforts for injection drug users (IDUs) since 1988 in over 60 inner-city areas within the United States have been… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Women Drug Users: An Ethnography of a Female Injecting Community
The book provides an account of the lives and experiences of a group of female intravenous drug users in Glasgow. Based on… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The psychology of preventing AIDS among intravenous drug users. A social learning conceptualization.
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Alcohol use among adolescent minority groups.
Drinking and drug use in a sample of minority students in the state of New York were studied. Minority groups were compared with… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: An Update
Abstract The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome continues to be a major public health problem in the United States, and recently… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Oxidation of the neurotoxic amine 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) by monoamine oxidases A and B and suicide inactivation of the enzymes by MPTP.
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, opportunistic infections, and malignancies in male homosexuals. A hypothesis of etiologic factors in pathogenesis.
The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) occurs in a subgroup of male homosexuals having sexual contact with a large number… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Cigarette smoking as a dependence process.
ed from Turner, J.A.M.; Sillett, R.W.; and McNichol, M.W. Effect of carboxyhaemoglobin and plasma nicotine concentrations in… 
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