Lynn D Wenger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1728496 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lynn D Wenger |
| PRENOMES | Lynn D |
| SOBRENOME | Wenger |
| ASSINATURA | WENGER L D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RTI International |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6527-7575 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Funding Community Health Services for People Who Use Drugs in San Francisco
Introduction The drug overdose mortality crisis persists in the United States. Evidence-based harm reduction interventions reduce overdose mortality and improve health outcomes. However, programs are challenged by social stigma against people who use drugs (PWUD) and insufficient funding, the most consequential determinant of implementation success. This study explored the determinants of funding, identified funding-related barriers and facilitat…
The role of stigma in impeding implementation of harm reduction services in San Francisco
The United States continues to face an epidemic of drug overdose deaths among people who use drugs (PWUD). Harm reduction services are efficacious interventions that reduce overdose deaths and improve the health of PWUD. For decades, San Francisco has remained at the vanguard of the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of harm reduction programs. During a time of national urgency in 2023, we conducted a qualitative study interviewing lead…
Evaluating health outcomes among American Indian/Alaska Native people who use drugs in Oregon
The present study determined the association between identifying as American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and ever having had an opioid-related overdose, housing status, prior diagnosis of a psychiatric illness, and utilization of syringe service and drug checking services. We recruited and surveyed people who use drugs in community-settings using targeted samplings methods in eight Oregon counties ( N = 468). We conducted logistic regression ana…
Housing assistance among people who are unstably housed and use drugs in Oregon
We found a large gap in housing assistance for people who use drugs in Oregon and identified several factors associated with obtaining housing assistance. Our findings can inform future interventions to connect people who use drugs with stable housing
Policing during a period of drug decriminalization
Financial barriers, facilitators, and strategies among syringe services programs in the U.S., and their impact on implementation and health outcomes
Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) provide evidence-based services like drug use equipment to prevent infectious disease, overdose prevention education, and naloxone distribution to people who use drugs (PWUD). However, inadequate funding threatens provision of these interventions. This study aimed to document how the current funding landscape impacted determinants of SSP implementation, particularly describing financial and staffing barriers, faci…
Updates on syringe coverage and service uptake among needle and syringe programs in the United States, 2019–2020
Both governmental investment in harm reduction programming and needs-based distribution of syringes increased service uptake and thus should be expanded and sustained to reduce harms associated with injection drug use
Radical hospitality
The co-location of an OPS within a multi-service drop-in center is an important example of how such an organization can build positive sociality among PWUD while protecting autonomy and reducing overdose mortality. Overdose response and reversal is an act of relational accountability in which friends, peers, and even strangers intervene to protect and revive one another. This powerful intervention was operationalized as an anti-oppressive, horizo…
Evaluating oxygen monitoring and administration during overdose responses at a sanctioned overdose prevention site in San Francisco, California
All carrots and no stick”
Health risk associated with residential relocation among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA
PWID who have relocated in the past 30 days have higher odds of experiencing violence and life- threatening adverse outcomes, and policies that disrupt living circumstances of PWID should be ended in favor of those that support housing stability
Establishment and Enforcement of Operational Rules at an Unsanctioned Safe Drug Consumption Site in the United States, 2014–2020
Objectives. To examine how operational rules are established and enforced at an unsanctioned safe consumption site (SCS) operating in the United States. Methods. We conducted 44 qualitative interviews with people who use drugs, staff members, and volunteers at an unsanctioned SCS and analyzed them using an inductive thematic approach. Results. Rule-making processes were largely driven by concerns raised by service users rather than driven by exte…
Novel Routes of Potential Hepatitis C Virus Transmission among People Who Inject Drugs
Background: The US is in the midst of a national Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) epidemic that appears to be driven by new cases among people who inject drugs (PWID). While HCV transmission among PWID is believed to occur mostly through direct sharing of syringes, some infections may be spread via secondary processes and materials involved in injecting. Objectives: Here, we present the prevalence of secondary blood exposures on clothing and nearby surfac…
Assisted injection provider practices and motivations in Los Angeles and San Francisco California 2016–18
Factors associated with injury and blood-borne infection risk when providing assisted injection among people who inject drugs
Correlates of Transactional Sex and Violent Victimization among Men Who Inject Drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
Bridging institutional logics
HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Prevention Awareness, Willingness, and Perceived Barriers among People Who Inject Drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA, 2016–2018
Background Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention is indicated for people who inject drugs (PWID), yet most studies do not focus on PWID. This study examines factors associated with PrEP awareness and willingness, and identifies perceived barriers to PrEP among PWID. Methods: PWID were interviewed in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA from 2016 to 2018. We analyzed data from self-reported HIV-negative participants who had injected drug…
Associations between perceived illicit fentanyl use and infectious disease risks among people who inject drugs
Peer-to-peer injection
Correlates of Sexual Coercion among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA
Food insecurity among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Objective We estimated the prevalence of food insecurity among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Los Angeles and San Francisco and explored correlates of food insecurity. Design A cross-sectional study that measured 30 d food insecurity using the US Adult Food Security Survey ten-item Module developed by the US Department of Agriculture. Food insecurity was defined as including low and very low food security. Setting Two cities in the state of Ca…
Moral ambivalence and the decision to initiate others into injection drug use
Initiation of Heroin and Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers by Birth Cohort
We examined initiation patterns among different birth cohorts of people who used prescription opioids and heroin because of historical differences in drug use availability. We examined data from a community-based study of persons who inject drugs (n = 483) in California and a general population survey from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (n = 1264) and found that individuals born after 1980 were more likely than were individuals born b…
Syringe disposal among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles
Bridging institutional logics
Correlates of Sexual Coercion among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA
Correlates of Transactional Sex and Violent Victimization among Men Who Inject Drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
Non-Partner Violence Against Women Who Use Drugs in San Francisco
This article examines non-partner violence among women who use methamphetamine (N = 322), recruited in an inner-city neighborhood of San Francisco. The combined prevalence of non-partner physical or sexual violence in the past 6 months was 28%, roughly equal to the prevalence of partner violence (26%). In multivariate analysis, factors associated with non-partner violence included frequent subsistence difficulty (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.43,…
Drug Treatment on Demand—Not
Drug treatment on demand, appropriate and affordable drug treatment for injection drug users who are "ready" to enter a program, is a humane approach to drug treatment services and an important mechanism to halt the spread of HIV. However, drug treatment on demand is not a reality in the United States. In fact, due to funding cuts at federal, state, and local levels, entry into drug treatment programs has become increasingly more difficult over t…
Cigar magazines
Cigar Aficionado and Smoke broke new ground in tobacco marketing by combining promotion of product, lifestyle, and industry in the same vehicle and linking the medium directly to product related events that extended its reach. The creation and marketing of new tobacco use sites challenges the increasing "isolation" of smokers, and positions cigar use as a socially welcome relief from restrictions. Public health advocates should anticipate and cha…
Health and Oral Health Care Needs and Health Care-Seeking Behavior Among Homeless Injection Drug Users in San Francisco
Few existing studies have examined health and oral health needs and treatment-seeking behavior among the homeless and injection drug users (IDUs). This paper describes the prevalence and correlates of health and oral health care needs and treatment-seeking behaviors in homeless IDUs recruited in San Francisco, California, from 2003 to 2005 (N = 340). We examined sociodemographic characteristics, drug use patterns, HIV status via oral fluid testin…
The prospect of implementing a Safer Injection Facility in San Francisco
Syringe Disposal Among Injection Drug Users in San Francisco
To assess the prevalence of improperly discarded syringes and to examine syringe disposal practices of injection drug users (IDUs) in San Francisco, we visually inspected 1000 random city blocks and conducted a survey of 602 IDUs. We found 20 syringes on the streets we inspected. IDUs reported disposing of 13% of syringes improperly. In multivariate analysis, obtaining syringes from syringe exchange programs was found to be protective against imp…
What's Faith Got to Do with It? Religiosity Among Women Who Use Methamphetamine
Religiosity is not found to be consistently protective in mental health and substance use outcomes among illicit drug users. This study examines the association between religiosity, mental health and drug use among a community-recruited sample of women who use methamphetamine. The majority of the sample (74%) had high scores of religious faith. In multivariate analysis, those with high scores had higher odds of self-reporting a mental health diag…
Sexual pleasure and sexual risk among women who use methamphetamine
Low-Frequency Heroin Injection among Out-of-Treatment, Street-Recruited Injection Drug Users
Interdisciplinary mixed methods research with structurally vulnerable populations
Syringe disposal among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles
The phenomenon of low-frequency heroin injection among street-based urban poor
Non-Partner Violence Against Women Who Use Drugs in San Francisco
This article examines non-partner violence among women who use methamphetamine (N = 322), recruited in an inner-city neighborhood of San Francisco. The combined prevalence of non-partner physical or sexual violence in the past 6 months was 28%, roughly equal to the prevalence of partner violence (26%). In multivariate analysis, factors associated with non-partner violence included frequent subsistence difficulty (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.43,…
Food insecurity among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Objective We estimated the prevalence of food insecurity among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Los Angeles and San Francisco and explored correlates of food insecurity. Design A cross-sectional study that measured 30 d food insecurity using the US Adult Food Security Survey ten-item Module developed by the US Department of Agriculture. Food insecurity was defined as including low and very low food security. Setting Two cities in the state of Ca…
Moral ambivalence and the decision to initiate others into injection drug use
Initiation of Heroin and Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers by Birth Cohort
We examined initiation patterns among different birth cohorts of people who used prescription opioids and heroin because of historical differences in drug use availability. We examined data from a community-based study of persons who inject drugs (n = 483) in California and a general population survey from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (n = 1264) and found that individuals born after 1980 were more likely than were individuals born b…
Peer-to-peer injection
Correlates of Sexual Coercion among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA
Associations between perceived illicit fentanyl use and infectious disease risks among people who inject drugs
HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Prevention Awareness, Willingness, and Perceived Barriers among People Who Inject Drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA, 2016–2018
Background Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention is indicated for people who inject drugs (PWID), yet most studies do not focus on PWID. This study examines factors associated with PrEP awareness and willingness, and identifies perceived barriers to PrEP among PWID. Methods: PWID were interviewed in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA from 2016 to 2018. We analyzed data from self-reported HIV-negative participants who had injected drug…
Novel Routes of Potential Hepatitis C Virus Transmission among People Who Inject Drugs
Background: The US is in the midst of a national Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) epidemic that appears to be driven by new cases among people who inject drugs (PWID). While HCV transmission among PWID is believed to occur mostly through direct sharing of syringes, some infections may be spread via secondary processes and materials involved in injecting. Objectives: Here, we present the prevalence of secondary blood exposures on clothing and nearby surfac…
Assisted injection provider practices and motivations in Los Angeles and San Francisco California 2016–18
Factors associated with injury and blood-borne infection risk when providing assisted injection among people who inject drugs
Correlates of Transactional Sex and Violent Victimization among Men Who Inject Drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
Bridging institutional logics
Health risk associated with residential relocation among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA
PWID who have relocated in the past 30 days have higher odds of experiencing violence and life- threatening adverse outcomes, and policies that disrupt living circumstances of PWID should be ended in favor of those that support housing stability
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (33 obras) · Medicine (33 obras) · Psychiatry (21 obras) · Environmental health (19 obras) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (19 obras) · Public health (14 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Internal Medicine (11 obras) · Nursing (11 obras) · Harm reduction (10 obras)