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Addiction Treatment
 

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Genotype distribution and treatment response among incarcerated drug-dependent patients with chronic hepatitis C infection.
Cheng CH, Lin CC, Chen HL, et al

PLoS One
. 2018 Feb 1;13(2):e0191799.
Paper

Direct-acting antiviral agents for HCV infection affecting people who inject drugs.
Grebely J, Hajarizadeh B, Dore GJ.
Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017 Aug 23.
Abstract 

Belgian experience with direct acting antivirals in people who inject drugs.
Bielen R, Moreno C, Van Vlierberghe H,  et al
 D rug Alcohol Depend. 2017 May 30;177:214-220
Abstract 

Case series on the safe use of buprenorphine/naloxone in individuals with acute
hepatitis C infection and abnormal hepatic liver transaminases.
Bruce RD, Altice FL.

Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2007;33(6):869-74.

Abstract 


ARV Therapy
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Sofosbuvir and velpatasvir for hepatitis C virus infection in people with recent injection drug use (SIMPLIFY): an open-label, single-arm, phase 4, multicentre trial.
Grebely J, Dalgard O, Conway B,  et al
Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Jan 5
Abstract

Treatment with direct-acting antiviral agents of hepatitis C virus infection in injecting drug users: a prospective study.
Boglione L, Mornese Pinna S,  et al
J Viral Hepat. 2017 Mar 26.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Facilitators of HCV treatment adherence among people who inject drugs: a systematic qualitative review and implications for scale up of direct acting antivirals.
Rich ZC, Chu C, Mao J, et al

BMC Public Health
. 2016 Sep 20;16
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Spontaneous viral clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) and HIV-positive men who have sex with men (HIV+ MSM): a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Smith DJ, Jordan AE, Frank M, Hagan H.

BMC Infect Dis
. 2016 Sep 5;16:471.
Paper

FULL-TEXT  ARTICLE
Are Interferon-Free Direct-Acting Antivirals for the Treatment of HCV Enough to Control the Epidemic among People Who Inject Drugs?
Lima VD, Rozada I, Grebely J, et al
PLoS One. 2015 Dec 3;10(12):e0143836
Paper

Drug-drug interactions in the treatment of HCV among people who inject drugs.
Mauss S, Klinker H.

Clin Infect Dis
. 2013 Aug;57 Suppl 2:S125-8.

Abstract
 

Combination therapy of natural human interferon-beta and ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C patients with injection drug use.
Morikawa H, Kozuka R, Fujii H,  et al

Hepatol Res
. 2013 Mar 27
Abstract 


Interferon Therapy
 

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Combination therapy of natural human interferon-beta and ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C patients with injection drug use.
Morikawa H, Kozuka R, Fujii H, et al

Hepatol Res
.
2013 Mar 27.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT  ARTICLE
Difficulties with interferon treatment in former intravenous drug users.
Gazdag G, Horváth G, Szabó O, Ungvari GS.

Braz J Infect Dis
. 2011 Apr;15(2):163-6.
Paper

Successful treatment of chronic hepatitis C with pegylated interferon in combination with ribavirin in a
methadone maintenance treatment program.
Litwin AH, Harris KA Jr, Nahvi S, et al 

J Subst Abuse Treat
. 2008 Nov 25
Abstract
 

 


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