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Older-age opioid-related deaths in the UK by Bird, Sheila M, Robertson, J Roy

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Scotland's 2009–2015 methadone‐prescription cohort: Quintiles for daily dose of prescribed methadone and risk of methadone‐specific death by Gao, Lu, Robertson, J. Roy, Bird, Sheila M.

“…Aims As methadone clients age, their drug‐related death (DRD) risks increase, more than doubling at 45+ years for methadone‐specific DRDs. Methods Using…”
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Avian use of perennial biomass feedstocks as post-breeding and migratory stopover habitat by Robertson, Bruce A, Doran, Patrick J, Loomis, Elizabeth R, Robertson, J Roy, Schemske, Douglas W

“…Increased production of biomass crops in North America will require new agricultural land, intensify the cultivation of land already under production and…”
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Spread of Hepatitis C Virus among European Injection Drug Users Infected with HIV: A Phylogenetic Analysis by van Asten, Liselotte, Verhaest, Inge, Lamzira, Saida, Hernandez-Aguado, Ildefonso, Zangerle, Robert, Boufassa, Faroudy, Rezza, Giovanni, Broers, Barbara, Robertson, J. Roy, Brettle, Raymond P., McMenamin, Jim, Prins, Maria, Cochrane, Alexandra, Simmonds, Peter, Coutinho, Roel A.

“…To describe the spread of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among HCV/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–coinfected injection drug users (IDUs), the molecular…”
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Risk-factors for methadone-specific deaths in Scotland’s methadone-prescription clients between 2009 and 2013 by Gao, Lu, Dimitropoulou, Polyxeni, Robertson, J. Roy, McTaggart, Stuart, Bennie, Marion, Bird, Sheila M

“…Highlights • Powerful analysis of a national cohort’s 362 methadone-specific deaths. • Scottish cohort of 33,128 methadone-prescription clients in 2009–2013. •…”
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Non drug-related and opioid-specific causes of 3262 deaths in Scotland’s methadone-prescription clients, 2009–2015 by Gao, Lu, Robertson, J. Roy, Bird, Sheila M.

“…•36,606 methadone-prescription clients in Scotland had 193,800 person=-years of follow-up during 2009-15.•Clients experienced 3262 deaths: 1939 non-DRDs (59%)…”
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External data required timely response by the Trial Steering-Data Monitoring Committee for the NALoxone InVEstigation (N-ALIVE) pilot trial by Bird, Sheila M, Strang, John, Ashby, Deborah, Podmore, John, Robertson, J. Roy, Welch, Sarah, Meade, Angela M, Parmar, Mahesh K.B

“…Abstract The prison-based N-ALIVE pilot trial had undertaken to notify the Research Ethics Committee and participants if we had reason to believe that the…”
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Ageing opioid users’ increased risk of methadone-specific death in the UK by Pierce, Matthias, Millar, Tim, Robertson, J. Roy, Bird, Sheila M.

“…The first evidence that the hazard ratio (HR) for methadone-specific death rises more steeply with age-group than for all drug-related deaths (DRDs) came from…”
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Treatment and Intervention for Opiate Dependence in the United Kingdom: Lessons from Triumph and Failure by Kalk, Nicola J., Robertson, J. Roy, Kidd, Brian, Day, Edward, Kelleher, Michael J., Gilvarry, Eilish, Strang, John

“…The history of opiate treatment in the United Kingdom (UK) since the early 1980s is a rich source of learning about the benefits and pitfalls of drug treatment…”
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Do HIV Disease Progression and HAART Response Vary among Injecting Drug Users in Europe? by van Asten, Liselotte, Zangerle, Robert, Aguado, Ildefonso Hernández, Boufassa, Faroudy, Broers, Barbara, Brettle, Raymond P., Robertson, J. Roy, McMenamin, Jim, Coutinho, Roel A., Prins, Maria

“…Prior to HAART availability, there was no evidence of a geographical variation in HIV disease progression among injecting drug users (IDU) from different…”
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Commentary on Senn et al. (2009): Primary care is the place to manage hepatitis C in opiate-dependent patients by ROBERTSON, J. ROY

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Limited effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive injecting drug users on the population level by van Asten, Liselotte C., Boufassa, Faroudy, Schiffer, Veronique, Brettle, Raymond P., Robertson, J. Roy, Aguado, Ildefonso Hernádez, McMenamin, Jim, Zangerle, Robert, Fontanet, Arnaud, Coutinho, Roel A., Prins, Maria

“…There is evidence that HIV-positive injecting drug users benefit less than other risk groups from highly active antiretroviral therapy that has been available…”
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Mortality related to novel psychoactive substances in Scotland, 2012: An exploratory study by McAuley, Andrew, Hecht, Garry, Barnsdale, Lee, Thomson, Catherine S, Graham, Lesley, Priyadarshi, Saket, Robertson, J. Roy

“…Highlights • Deaths involving novel psychoactive substances (NPS) affect small numbers at population level. • High incidence of NPS is noteworthy when…”
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Mismatched Human Leukocyte Antigen Alleles Protect Against Heterosexual HIV Transmission by Lockett, Sarah F, Robertson, J Roy, Brettle, Ray P, Yap, Peng Lee, Middleton, Derek, Brown, Andrew J. Leigh

“…Genetic variation at the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loci has been shown to be an important risk factor for progression to HIV disease, but its significance…”
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Changing patterns in causes of death in a cohort of injecting drug users, 1980-2001 by Copeland, Lorraine, Budd, John, Robertson, J Roy, Elton, Rob A

“…High mortality among drug users has been widely recognized. This study investigates, in a large family practice of 10 000 patients in Edinburgh, Scotland,…”
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Toxicology of Scotland's drugs-related deaths in 2000-2007: Presence of heroin, methadone, diazepam and alcohol by sex, age-group and era by Bird, Sheila M., Robertson, J. Roy

“…Scotland has a new database on drugs-related deaths (DRDs). We review the prior toxicology and demography of Scotland's DRDs in 2000-2007. Each DRD was…”
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Addressing the efficacy of dihydrocodeine versus methadone as an alternative maintenance treatment for opiate dependence: a randomized controlled trial by Robertson, J. Roy, Raab, Gillian M., Bruce, Malcolm, McKenzie, James S., Storkey, Helen R., Salter, Amy

“…ABSTRACT Aim  The aim of this study is to define the efficacy of dihydrocodeine as an alternative to methadone in the maintenance treatment of opiate…”
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Do gender differences in CD4 cell counts matter? by PRINS, M, ROBERTSON, J. R, BRETTLE, R. P, HERNANDEZ AGUADO, I, BROERS, B, BOUFASSA, F, GOLDBERG, D. J, ZANGERLE, R, COUTINHO, R. A, VAN DEN HOEK, A

“…To examine the effect of gender on disease progression and whether gender differences in CD4 lymphocyte counts persisted for the entire course from HIV…”
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Tuberculosis risk varies with the duration of HIV infection: a prospective study of European drug users with known date of HIV seroconversion by VAN ASTEN, Liselotte, LANGENDAM, Miranda, PRINS, Maria, ZANGERLE, Robert, HERNANDEZ AGUADO, Ildefonso, BOUFASSA, Faroudy, SCHIFFER, Veronique, BRETTLE, Raymond P, ROBERTSON, J. Roy, FONTANET, Arnaud, COUTINHO, Roel A

“…It is not known whether the risk of active tuberculosis disease varies with the length of time that individuals are infected with HIV. To study how,…”
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Pre-AIDS mortality from natural causes associated with HIV disease progression: Evidence from the European seroconverter study among injecting drug users by PRINS, M, AGUADO, D. H, BRETTLE, R. P, ROBERTSON, J. R, BROERS, B, CARRE, N, GOLDBERG, D. J, ZANGERLE, R, COUTINHO, R. A, VAN DEN HOEK, A

“…To study differences in pre-AIDS mortality between European cohorts of injecting drug users (IDU) and to evaluate whether pre-AIDS mortality increased with…”
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