Impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs

•The impact of poly-substance use with alcohol on mortality is not well-described in the literature.•Binge alcohol use was examined in two prospective cohort studies in Vancouver, Canada.•We examined all-cause mortality for people who inject drugs (PWID).•In this setting, binge alcohol use is positi...

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Main Authors: Johnson, Cheyenne, Dong, Huiru, Ahamad, Keith, Hayashi, Kanna, Milloy, M.J., Kerr, Thomas, Wood, Evan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470370/
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spelling pubmed-44703702016-12-01 Impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs Johnson, Cheyenne Dong, Huiru Ahamad, Keith Hayashi, Kanna Milloy, M.J. Kerr, Thomas Wood, Evan Article •The impact of poly-substance use with alcohol on mortality is not well-described in the literature.•Binge alcohol use was examined in two prospective cohort studies in Vancouver, Canada.•We examined all-cause mortality for people who inject drugs (PWID).•In this setting, binge alcohol use is positively and independently associated with all-cause mortality. Elsevier 2015-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4470370/ /pubmed/26097893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2015.05.002 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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author Johnson, Cheyenne
Dong, Huiru
Ahamad, Keith
Hayashi, Kanna
Milloy, M.J.
Kerr, Thomas
Wood, Evan
spellingShingle Johnson, Cheyenne
Dong, Huiru
Ahamad, Keith
Hayashi, Kanna
Milloy, M.J.
Kerr, Thomas
Wood, Evan
Impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs
author_facet Johnson, Cheyenne
Dong, Huiru
Ahamad, Keith
Hayashi, Kanna
Milloy, M.J.
Kerr, Thomas
Wood, Evan
author_sort Johnson, Cheyenne
title Impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs
title_short Impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs
title_full Impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs
title_fullStr Impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs
title_full_unstemmed Impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs
title_sort impact of binge alcohol on mortality among people who inject drugs
description •The impact of poly-substance use with alcohol on mortality is not well-described in the literature.•Binge alcohol use was examined in two prospective cohort studies in Vancouver, Canada.•We examined all-cause mortality for people who inject drugs (PWID).•In this setting, binge alcohol use is positively and independently associated with all-cause mortality.
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470370/
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