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Health, Life, and HIV
Beyond Condoms...
Creating a gay men's culture of sexual health
How the community can acknowledge the power and complexity of sexual relations while still reducing the risk of AIDS.
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Clean, Sober...
and Medicated?
From painkillers to medical marijuana, HIV meds can pose a tough challenge for people in recovery.
Medication for pain, addiction, anxiety, and even HIV itself could threaten years of sobriety.
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Articles and Research
Selected publications by Richard Elovich on substance use, HIV prevention, and drug treatment.
 
HIV in Central Asia:


Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Tajikstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan

Wolfe, D., Elovich, R., Boltaev, A.,  Pulatov, D. In Press 2007. " HIV in Central Asia: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan." in Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Epidemiology, Prevention and Care, edited by C. Beyrer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Harm Reduction in Central Asia:


Ailing Public Health Systems Limit Effective Harm Reduction Efforts

Continued failure to build comprehensive public health infrastructures is severely hampering efforts to address growing drug use and HIV/AIDS crises in Central Asia. A look at some of the reasons for this failure and ideas for more effective drug and HIV/AIDS policies in the region.
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Understanding Substance Users:


Effectively Caring for Active Substance Users

For physicians, health care is impeded by a failure to move beyond
evidence of substance use to knowledge of the substance user -- including his or her patterns of use, attendant risk, and functionality.
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Manuals for Working with Drug Users
Stages of Change diagram

 

 

Promising practices for engaging drug users effectively:

• Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Improvement Manual (English) »

• Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Improvement Manual (Russian) »

• NYAMs Manual for Primary Care Providers »

 

Who Owns Ecstasy?

Who Owns Ecstasy? - Illustration by Andrew SkwishThe Fight Over the Study of MDMA
Experts discuss and debate the drug's possible benefits and neurotoxicity at a conference convened by Marsha Rosenbaum, director of the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation.
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Starting Drug Treatment 'Where People Are At'

AcupunctureAcupuncture and Treatment Readiness
Auricular acupuncture, unlike a drug or pill, has a different reality for the drug user and the program.
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Keeping It Real:

Harm Reduction and Street Involved Youth
A low threshold approach to treating drug users that provides a public health alternative to the traditional prohibitive model of drug enforcement.
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Self-Empowerment:

From Collective Understanding to Action
The notion of the self-empowered individual has a rich and discursive history in HIV/AIDS circles within the US and around the world.
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