Martin Frischer

Biographic Data

ID1136708
NAMEMartin Frischer
GIVEN NAMESMartin
FAMILY NAMEFrischer
SIGNATUREFRISCHER M
AFFILIATIONSRuchill Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX2

  • Supporting the evidence-based treatment of individual drug users

    Open AccessDuncan Short, Martin FrischerARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2005

  • Medicine misuse or drug abuse? A critical appraisal of current issues and research in the UK

    Open AccessMartin Frischer, Alison BlenkinsoppARTICLECritical Public Health1999

    During the last decade consumption of licit medications and illicit drugs has risen substantially. It is estimated that the 100 000–200 000 severely dependent drug misusers in the UK generate social costs of 3–4 billion annually, while the cost of prescribed medicines for the entire population is currently 5 billion. Although attitudes and behaviours have been extensively researched, they remain complex and often contradictory. In particular, lit…

  • Tideline and Turn

    Open AccessMichael Bloor, Martin Frischer et al.ARTICLEThe Sociological Review1994Cited by: 2References: 19

    This is an early report of data from an on-going, repeated, cross-sectional study of a community sample of Glasgow injecting drug users. Although HIV was first detected among Glasgow's drug injectors in 1985, data from the first two years of our annual samples (1990 and 1991) indicate that HIV prevalence continues to be low in this population, in the order of 1 or 2 per cent. Possible reasons for this apparent continuing low prevalence are examin…

  • HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among injecting drug users in London and Glasgow

    Tammy Rhodes, T J Rhodes et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care1993

    This paper reports on the British findings from a cross-national study of HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among 1,037 injecting drug users (IDUs) recruited from a variety of treatment- and community-based settings during 1990. Confirmed HIV saliva test results show 12.8% (63) of London respondents and 1.8% (8) of Glasgow respondents to be HIV antibody positive. Among London respondents, a higher rate of prevalence was found in those with no…

  • Female streetworker—prostitutes in Glasgrow

    S T Green, David Goldberg et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care1993

    The objective of this study is to describe the lifestyle of a group of female prostitutes. The collection of information was achieved by: (i) using a self administered questionnaire; and (ii) conducting conversational type interviews. Of 85 women attending a health care drop-in centre for female street prostitutes in Glasgow, 63 completed the questionnaire and 72 participated in conversational interviews. For 63 women the mean age of commencement…

  • Mortality among injecting drug users

    Martin Frischer, Michael Bloor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1993Cited by: 5References: 6

    STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to quantify all cause mortality among injecting drug users. DESIGN--This was a retrospective analysis of 1989 data on injecting drug users and mortality obtained from three independent agencies: the Procurator Fiscal's Office, the General Register Office, and the Scottish HIV-test register. SETTING--Greater Glasgow, Scotland. SUBJECTS--Drug injectors, estimated population 9424. MAIN RESULTS--81 names were found using …

  • Alcohol and Drugs

    Martin FrischerARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1993

  • Mortality among drug injectors and notified addicts

    Martin Frischer, Michael Bloor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1993

    Selective migration by birthweight SIR-Martyn et al suggest that selective migra- tion by birthweight may confound epidem- iological studies of early life experience and adult cardiovascular disease among migrants.'They found that the mean birthweight of men born in the north of England (Preston and Sheffield) who sub- sequently left their county of birth was higher than that of men who remained.Higher birthweight, they argue, is associated with …

  • Differentiating the Elderly

    Martin Frischer, Graeme Ford et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…1991References: 13

    While there has been increasing recognition of the general proposition that the elderly are not a homogenous population there have been few attempts to delineate the characteristics of sub‐groups varying on dimensions of well‐being, such as health and psychological state. This may be due to the difficulty researchers have encountered in finding a rational basis for differentiating elderly people. However, there are also conceptual and methodologi…