Nick Crofts
Biographic Data
| ID | 5554782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Crofts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Crofts |
| SIGNATURE | CROFTS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Law enforcement and public health as an emerging field
Law enforcement (especially policing) and public health share much common ground; insecurity and lack of safety, traditionally provinces of law enforcement, are iniquitous to health and to attempts to improve public health. Considering the maturity of both fields and the growing complexities of their challenges, it is urgent to more consciously ‘join forces’. Public health has a strong culture of seeing the individual within their community, as a…
Hepatitis C prevention and care for injecting drug users
Drug offending and criminal justice responses
Vulnerability among Vietnamese illicit drug users in Australia
Harm reduction—a historical view from the left
Harm reduction — a historical view from the left
Drug Treatment Services for Ethnic Communities in Victoria, Australia
Under-representation of ethnic minorities at drug treatment services represents under-utilisation rather than a lower need. To explore barriers to drug treatment among ethnic communities we undertook a comprehensive review of international and Australian literature to identify problems their members experience upon the discovery of illicit drug use in their community, how drug treatment is addressed and challenges for improved drug treatment outc…
A certain fate
This study aimed to measure risk behaviours and seroprevalence of HIV and hepatitis C virus in IDUs in Manipur, North-East India, and evaluate the impact of the recently established Syringe and Needle Exchange Program (SNEP). Sampling strategy was based on social networks. Peer interviewers administered the study questionnaire and collected blood for anti-HCV and anti-HIV testing. One hundred and ninety-one IDUs (85% male) took part. Average age …
Rapid assessment of drug use and HIV vulnerability in south-east and east Asia
Bali high? Intravenous drug use in Indonesia—when will we ever learn
The Meaning of the Rush for Initiates to Injecting Drug Use
Initiation into injecting drug use involves a new drug experience and a significantly greater risk of exposure to infection with blood-borne viruses such as HIV and Hepatitis B and C. Previous studies have suggested that the promise and experience of a rush are particularly important in initiating into injecting drug use. This study explores the experience of the rush for initiates to injection drug use and contextualizes the experience within th…
Drug use in Asia
The Next Plague
A recently discovered hepatitis C virus is a common cause of chronic liver disease in industrialized countries. Because it is basically blood-borne and because blood donors are systematically screened, the only major group now at risk of infection are injecting drug users. There are increasing reports of stigmatization, affronts to dignity and discrimination as a result of the hepatitis C status of individuals, but little action is being taken to…
Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Australia
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To review the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia, and consider needs for further research and prevention policies and programmes. DESIGN: (1) Review of the results of surveillance for HCV; (2) review of published literature on prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for HCV among IDUs; and (3) reconstruction of incidence rates from prevalence studies of HCV in IDUs. SE…
The first hit
Initiation into injecting is a crucial event for continued reproduction of an injecting drug using (IDU) population and for exposure to blood‐borne viruses, but little is known about how this happens. Three hundred young injectors were interviewed in Melbourne by peer workers within the first few years of beginning to inject, about the circumstances surrounding their initiation. Most had indications of social disruption, including having left sch…
A national surveillance system for newly acquired HIV infection in Australia. National HIV Surveillance Committee
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to describe the establishment of a national surveillance system for newly acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and present the first 3 years' results. METHODS. All new cases of diagnosed HIV infection were reported to the national HIV surveillance center through state and territory health authorities. Information sought on each case included evidence of whether the infection had been newl…
HIV infection among injecting drug users in Asia
Injecting drug use is being reported from an increasing number of Asian and other Third World countries. HIV continues to spread globally among and from populations of injecting drug users (IDUs), although the rate of spread appears to have slowed down recently in some industrialized countries. Asia produces two-thirds of the world's supply of opium. In recent years the rapid development of new illicit drug trade routes in efforts to evade detect…
Law enforcement and public health as an emerging field
Law enforcement (especially policing) and public health share much common ground; insecurity and lack of safety, traditionally provinces of law enforcement, are iniquitous to health and to attempts to improve public health. Considering the maturity of both fields and the growing complexities of their challenges, it is urgent to more consciously ‘join forces’. Public health has a strong culture of seeing the individual within their community, as a…
The Next Plague
A recently discovered hepatitis C virus is a common cause of chronic liver disease in industrialized countries. Because it is basically blood-borne and because blood donors are systematically screened, the only major group now at risk of infection are injecting drug users. There are increasing reports of stigmatization, affronts to dignity and discrimination as a result of the hepatitis C status of individuals, but little action is being taken to…
Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Australia
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To review the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia, and consider needs for further research and prevention policies and programmes. DESIGN: (1) Review of the results of surveillance for HCV; (2) review of published literature on prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for HCV among IDUs; and (3) reconstruction of incidence rates from prevalence studies of HCV in IDUs. SE…
The Meaning of the Rush for Initiates to Injecting Drug Use
Initiation into injecting drug use involves a new drug experience and a significantly greater risk of exposure to infection with blood-borne viruses such as HIV and Hepatitis B and C. Previous studies have suggested that the promise and experience of a rush are particularly important in initiating into injecting drug use. This study explores the experience of the rush for initiates to injection drug use and contextualizes the experience within th…
Drug Treatment Services for Ethnic Communities in Victoria, Australia
Under-representation of ethnic minorities at drug treatment services represents under-utilisation rather than a lower need. To explore barriers to drug treatment among ethnic communities we undertook a comprehensive review of international and Australian literature to identify problems their members experience upon the discovery of illicit drug use in their community, how drug treatment is addressed and challenges for improved drug treatment outc…
A national surveillance system for newly acquired HIV infection in Australia. National HIV Surveillance Committee
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to describe the establishment of a national surveillance system for newly acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and present the first 3 years' results. METHODS. All new cases of diagnosed HIV infection were reported to the national HIV surveillance center through state and territory health authorities. Information sought on each case included evidence of whether the infection had been newl…
HIV infection among injecting drug users in Asia
Injecting drug use is being reported from an increasing number of Asian and other Third World countries. HIV continues to spread globally among and from populations of injecting drug users (IDUs), although the rate of spread appears to have slowed down recently in some industrialized countries. Asia produces two-thirds of the world's supply of opium. In recent years the rapid development of new illicit drug trade routes in efforts to evade detect…
A national surveillance system for newly acquired HIV infection in Australia. National HIV Surveillance Committee
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to describe the establishment of a national surveillance system for newly acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and present the first 3 years' results. METHODS. All new cases of diagnosed HIV infection were reported to the national HIV surveillance center through state and territory health authorities. Information sought on each case included evidence of whether the infection had been newl…
The first hit
Initiation into injecting is a crucial event for continued reproduction of an injecting drug using (IDU) population and for exposure to blood‐borne viruses, but little is known about how this happens. Three hundred young injectors were interviewed in Melbourne by peer workers within the first few years of beginning to inject, about the circumstances surrounding their initiation. Most had indications of social disruption, including having left sch…
The Next Plague
A recently discovered hepatitis C virus is a common cause of chronic liver disease in industrialized countries. Because it is basically blood-borne and because blood donors are systematically screened, the only major group now at risk of infection are injecting drug users. There are increasing reports of stigmatization, affronts to dignity and discrimination as a result of the hepatitis C status of individuals, but little action is being taken to…
Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Australia
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To review the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia, and consider needs for further research and prevention policies and programmes. DESIGN: (1) Review of the results of surveillance for HCV; (2) review of published literature on prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for HCV among IDUs; and (3) reconstruction of incidence rates from prevalence studies of HCV in IDUs. SE…
Drug use in Asia
Bali high? Intravenous drug use in Indonesia—when will we ever learn
The Meaning of the Rush for Initiates to Injecting Drug Use
Initiation into injecting drug use involves a new drug experience and a significantly greater risk of exposure to infection with blood-borne viruses such as HIV and Hepatitis B and C. Previous studies have suggested that the promise and experience of a rush are particularly important in initiating into injecting drug use. This study explores the experience of the rush for initiates to injection drug use and contextualizes the experience within th…
A certain fate
This study aimed to measure risk behaviours and seroprevalence of HIV and hepatitis C virus in IDUs in Manipur, North-East India, and evaluate the impact of the recently established Syringe and Needle Exchange Program (SNEP). Sampling strategy was based on social networks. Peer interviewers administered the study questionnaire and collected blood for anti-HCV and anti-HIV testing. One hundred and ninety-one IDUs (85% male) took part. Average age …
Rapid assessment of drug use and HIV vulnerability in south-east and east Asia
Harm reduction—a historical view from the left
Harm reduction — a historical view from the left
Drug Treatment Services for Ethnic Communities in Victoria, Australia
Under-representation of ethnic minorities at drug treatment services represents under-utilisation rather than a lower need. To explore barriers to drug treatment among ethnic communities we undertook a comprehensive review of international and Australian literature to identify problems their members experience upon the discovery of illicit drug use in their community, how drug treatment is addressed and challenges for improved drug treatment outc…
Drug offending and criminal justice responses
Vulnerability among Vietnamese illicit drug users in Australia
Hepatitis C prevention and care for injecting drug users
Law enforcement and public health as an emerging field
Law enforcement (especially policing) and public health share much common ground; insecurity and lack of safety, traditionally provinces of law enforcement, are iniquitous to health and to attempts to improve public health. Considering the maturity of both fields and the growing complexities of their challenges, it is urgent to more consciously ‘join forces’. Public health has a strong culture of seeing the individual within their community, as a…
Medicine (12 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Drug (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Virology (6 works) · Hepatitis C virus research (5 works)