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Patients’ Perspectives on Tapering of Chronic Opioid Therapy: A Qualitative Study by Frank, Joseph W., Levy, Cari, Matlock, Daniel D., Calcaterra, Susan L., Mueller, Shane R., Koester, Stephen, Binswanger, Ingrid A.

“…Objective. There is inadequate evidence of long-term benefit and growing evidence of the risks of chronic opioid therapy (COT). Opioid dose reduction, or…”
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Investigating the intersection of policing and public health by Burris, Scott, Koester, Stephen

“…In an accompanying Perspective, Scott Burris and Stephen Koester discuss the association between punitive policies and health inequalities and argue for more…”
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The disconnect between China's public health and public security responses to injection drug use, and the consequences for human rights by Koester, Stephen

“…According to Cohen and Amon, approximately 350,000 drug users were confined in 700 compulsory detoxification centers and 165 RELCs in 2005 [4]. According to…”
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Prescription opioids prior to injection drug use: Comparisons and public health implications by Al-Tayyib, Alia A., PhD, Koester, Stephen, PhD, Riggs, Paula, MD

“…Abstract Background The intertwining prescription opioid and heroin epidemic is a major public health problem in the United States, with increasing morbidity…”
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Addressing the "Risk Environment" for Injection Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop by BURRIS, SCOTT, BLANKENSHIP, KIM M., DONOGHOE, MARTIN, SHERMAN, SUSAN, VERNICK, JON S., CASE, PATRICIA, LAZZARINI, ZITA, KOESTER, STEPHEN

“…Ecological models of the determinants of health and the consequent importance of structural interventions have been widely accepted, but using these models in…”
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Invisible homelessness: anonymity, exposure, and the right to the city by Langegger, Sig, Koester, Stephen

“…The city of Denver, Colorado recently outlawed camping in all open space. Part of a broad effort to accelerate the profit potential of prime urban land through…”
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Heroin and Methamphetamine Injection: An Emerging Drug Use Pattern by Al-Tayyib, Alia, Koester, Stephen, Langegger, Sig, Raville, Lisa

“…Objective: We sought to describe an emerging drug use pattern characterized by injection of both methamphetamine and heroin. We examined differences in drug…”
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Trends in U.S., past-year marijuana use from 1985 to 2009: An age–period–cohort analysis by Miech, Richard, Koester, Stephen

“…Abstract Background We present a formal age–period–cohort analysis to examine if the recent increase in past-year marijuana use among the young is specific to…”
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Copping, Running, and Paraphernalia Laws: Contextual Variables and Needle Risk Behavior among Injection Drug Users in Denver by KOESTER, STEPHEN K.

“…This paper addresses syringe sharing, the primary method of HIV transmission among drug injectors. It argues that this high risk drug injection behavior cannot…”
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Commentary on Harris & Rhodes (2012): Discouraging syringe re-use by addressing drug injectors' everyday suffering by KOESTER, STEPHEN

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Moving on, finding shelter: The spatiotemporal camp by Langegger, Sig, Koester, Stephen

“…This article orbits two mandated mobilities: moving on and finding shelter – one continual and one oriented toward confinement. Reporting ethnographic…”
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Why are some people who have received overdose education and naloxone reticent to call Emergency Medical Services in the event of overdose? by Koester, Stephen, Mueller, Shane R., Raville, Lisa, Langegger, Sig, Binswanger, Ingrid A.

“…Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) training for persons who inject drugs (PWID) underlines the importance of summoning emergency medical…”
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Overdose Education and Naloxone for Patients Prescribed Opioids in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Staff by Binswanger, Ingrid A., Koester, Stephen, Mueller, Shane R., Gardner, Edward M., Goddard, Kristin, Glanz, Jason M.

“…ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The rate of fatal unintentional pharmaceutical opioid poisonings has increased substantially since the late 1990s. Naloxone is an effective…”
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Investigating the Intersection of Policing and Public Health: e1001571 by Burris, Scott, Koester, Stephen

“…Health research can and should engage the relationship between punitive social control practices and global economic policies including trade liberalization…”
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Misuse of prescription stimulants for weight loss, psychosocial variables, and eating disordered behaviors by Jeffers, Amy, Benotsch, Eric G., Koester, Stephen

“…► Using a prescription stimulant for weight loss was fairly common in this sample. ► These individuals had more maladaptive or problematic cognitions. ► They…”
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Injection drug users' experience with and attitudes toward methadone clinics in Denver, CO by Al-Tayyib, Alia A., Ph.D, Koester, Stephen, Ph.D

“…Abstract Clients' perceptions and attitudes toward methadone treatment programs are frequently overlooked in substance abuse research. Given the importance of…”
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Attitudes Toward Naloxone Prescribing in Clinical Settings: A Qualitative Study of Patients Prescribed High Dose Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain by Mueller, Shane R., Koester, Stephen, Glanz, Jason M., Gardner, Edward M., Binswanger, Ingrid A.

“…Background Over the last 2 decades, medical providers have increasingly prescribed pharmaceutical opioids for chronic non-cancer pain, while opioid overdose…”
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Trends in U.S., past-year marijuana use from 1985 to 2009: An ageaperiodacohort analysis by Miech, Richard, Koester, Stephen

“…Background: We present a formal ageaperiodacohort analysis to examine if the recent increase in past-year marijuana use among the young is specific to the…”
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Co-management of Tropical Coastal Zones: The Case of the Soufriere Marine Management Area, St. Lucia, WI by Sandersen, Hakan T, Koester, Stephen

“…Centralized, top-down fisheries management models based on biological stock-recruitment have, at best, achieved limited success when adapted to Third World…”
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“Those Conversations in My Experience Don’t Go Well”: A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Provider Experiences Tapering Long-term Opioid Medications by Kennedy, Laura C, Binswanger, Ingrid A, Mueller, Shane R, Levy, Cari, Matlock, Daniel D, Calcaterra, Susan L, Koester, Stephen, Frank, Joseph W

“…Abstract Objective Given the risks of long-term opioid therapy, patients may benefit from tapering these medications. There is little evidence to guide…”
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