Epidemiology and Management of invasive infections among people who Use drugs (EMU): protocol for a prospective, multicentre cohort study.  Attwood LO, Bryant M, Lee SJ, Vujovic O, Higgs P, Doyle JS, Stewardson AJ; EMU Study Group.  BMJ…

Opium as a risk factor for early-onset coronary artery disease: Results from the Milano-Iran (MIran) study.  Maino A, Sadeghian S, Mancini I, Abbasi SH, Poorhosseini H, Boroumand MA, et al. (2023)  PLoS ONE 18(4): e0283707. doi.org/…

A contemporary case series of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infective endocarditis.  Walczak A, McCarthy K, Paterson DL.  Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Mar 31;102(13):e32662. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000032662. PMID: 37000062; PMCID: PMC10063303. h…

Population-Level Health Effects of Involuntary Displacement of People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness Who Inject Drugs in US Cities.  Barocas JA, Nall SK, Axelrath S, Pladsen C, Boyer A, Kral AH, Meehan AA, Savinkina A, Peery D, Bien M…

Inpatients in substance use treatment with co-occurring psychiatric disorders: a prospective cohort study of characteristics and relapse predictors.  Andersson, H.W., Mosti, M.P. & Nordfjaern, T.  BMC Psychiatry 23, 152 (2023)…

UK. Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK  This report describes the extent of infections and injecting-related harms among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom. (UK Government, UK Health Security Agen…