Investigating drug trends among people who inject drugs: Temporal, geographical and operational analyses of used syringes in Sydney, Australia
This research aligns well with Australia's harm minimisation approach to drugs and has broader implications for harm minimisation globally. It holds great potential for harm reduction at an individual level for PWID by providing insights into the current drug market. Targeted applications of syringe analysis may be the only tool to gather information on drug use among PWID when traditional data sources are unavailable. Hence, broader implementations at the national level might capture unique insights into injecting drug consumption trends.
Authors
- Mark J. Bartlett
- Scott Chadwick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2006-9841)
- Claude Roux
- Jared A Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6855-3865)
- Edmund Silins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1112-9777)
- Marie Morelato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7616-0623)
- Jane Latimer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4809-5753)
- Harrison Fursman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4418-6471)
- R Riseley
Institutions
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- New South Wales Department of Health (AU)
- NSW Department of Education (AU)
- South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Drug Policy
- Published
- 2025-04-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104803
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.77