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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerry Stimson is a British public health social scientist, emeritus professor at Imperial College London from 2004, and an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 2017. Stimson has over 220 scientific publications mainly on social and health aspects of illicit drug use, including HIV infection. He has sat on numerous editorial boards including AIDS, Addiction, and European Addiction Research, and with Tim Rhodes he was the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Drug Policy from 2000 to 2016. He is one of the global leaders for research on and later advocacy for harm reduction.
Gerry Stimson's Published Works
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- Global overview of injecting drug use and HIV infection among injecting drug users (2004) (474)
- Obeying doctor's orders: a view from the other side. (1974) (384)
- Fortnightly Review: Methadone maintenance treatment in opiate dependence: a review (1994) (377)
- Comorbidity of substance misuse and mental illness in community mental health and substance misuse services (2003) (358)
- HIV in prison in low-income and middle-income countries. (2007) (255)
- AIDS and injecting drug use in the United Kingdom, 1987-1993: the policy response and the prevention of the epidemic. (1995) (228)
- HIV infection associated with drug injecting in the newly independent states, eastern Europe: the social and economic context of epidemics. (1999) (223)
- Heroin Addiction: Treatment and Control in Britain (1982) (156)
- Going to see the doctor : the consultation process in general practice (1976) (152)
- Drug injecting, rapid HIV spread, and the 'risk environment': implications for assessment and response. (1999) (149)
- Incidence of hepatitis C virus and HIV among new injecting drug users in London: prospective cohort study (2004) (141)
- Drug injecting and HIV infection : global dimensions and local responses (1998) (140)
- Drug-related mortality and fatal overdose risk: Pilot cohort study of heroin users recruited from specialist drug treatment sites in London (2003) (138)
- Estimates of injecting drug users at the national and local level in developing and transitional countries, and gender and age distribution (2006) (135)
- Attitudes Toward Transplantation in U.K. Muslim Indo‐Asians in West London (2005) (124)
- Rapid assessment, injecting drug use, and public health (1999) (101)
- Prevalence of hepatitis C among injection drug users in England and Wales: is harm reduction working? (2001) (99)
- Changes in HIV risk behaviour in clients of syringe-exchange schemes in England and Scotland. (1989) (98)
- Syringe-exchange programmes for injecting drug users. (1989) (93)
- Changes in the injecting risk behaviour of injecting drug users in London, 1990‐1993 (1995) (92)
- Sex, drugs, intervention, and research: from the individual to the social. (1996) (84)
- Life-style factors and social circumstances of syringe sharing in injecting drug users. (1992) (84)
- Trends in drug overdose deaths in England and Wales 1993-98: methadone does not kill more people than heroin. (2003) (78)
- A review of the evidence-base for harm reduction approaches to drug use (2005) (77)
- Sexual behaviour of injecting drug users and associated risks of HIV infection for non-injecting sexual partners. (1989) (75)
- Syringe exchange schemes for drug users in England and Scotland (1988) (71)
- Feasibility of prescribing injectable heroin and methadone to opiate‐dependent drug users: associated health gains and harm reductions (1998) (71)
- Evaluation of syringe-exchange for HIV prevention among injecting drug users in rural and urban areas of Wales. (1993) (70)
- Has the United Kingdom averted an epidemic of HIV-1 infection among drug injectors? (1996) (70)
- 'Blair declares war' : the unhealthy state of British drug policy. (2000) (69)
- Estimating the prevalence of problem drug use in inner London: a discussion of three capture-recapture studies. (1999) (66)
- Antiretroviral treatment for injecting drug users in developing and transitional countries 1 year before the end of the "Treating 3 million by 2005. Making it happen. The WHO strategy" ("3 by 5"). (2006) (64)
- HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in England and Wales 1990 to 2003: evidence for increased transmission in recent years (2005) (62)
- Conditions for widespread heterosexual spread of HIV in the Russian Federation: implications for research, monitoring and prevention (2003) (62)
- Severe mental illness and substance misuse (1999) (60)
- Measuring injecting risk behaviour in the second decade of harm reduction: a survey of injecting drug users in England. (2000) (59)
- AIDS : responses, interventions, and care (1991) (54)
- Continued risk behaviour among HIV positive drug injectors in London: implications for intervention. (1993) (53)
- Qualitative social research in addictions publishing: Creating an enabling journal environment. (2010) (52)
- HIV risk behaviors among female IDUs in developing and transitional countries (2007) (49)
- Seven-year follow-up of heroin addicts: drug use and outcome. (1978) (48)
- Using standardized methods for research on HIV and injecting drug use in developing/transitional countries: case study from the WHO Drug Injection Study Phase II (2006) (47)
- 'Unsafe protected sex': qualitative insights on measures of sexual risk. (1998) (47)
- Rapid assessment and response: methods for developing public health responses to drug problems (1999) (47)
- What is the relationship between drug taking and sexual risk? Social relations and social research (1994) (46)
- Sexual behaviour of drug injectors in London: implications for HIV transmission and HIV prevention. (1994) (46)
- A short questionnaire (IRQ) to assess injecting risk behaviour. (1998) (46)
- Survey of doctors prescribing diamorphine (heroin) to opiate-dependent drug users in the United Kingdom. (2002) (46)
- Rapid assessment and response studies of injection drug use: knowledge gain, capacity building, and intervention development in a multisite study. (2006) (46)
- Rapid assessment: an international review of diffusion, practice and outcomes in the substance use field. (2004) (46)
- Survey of addicts prescribed heroin at London clinics. (1970) (45)
- Drug use in prison (1994) (45)
- Crack use and injection on the increase among injecting drug users in London. (1995) (44)
- The fourth Okey memorial lecture. AIDS and HIV: the challenge for British drug services. (1990) (44)
- HIV transmission risk behaviour of clients attending syringe-exchange schemes in England and Scotland. (1988) (43)
- Global Perspectives on Drug Injecting (1998) (42)
- Prevalence of markers for hepatitis B virus and HIV-1 among drug injectors in London: injecting careers, positivity and risk behaviour. (1996) (42)
- Disruptive innovations: the rise of the electronic cigarette. (2014) (41)
- Over a decade of syringe exchange: results from 1997 UK survey. (2002) (41)
- Drugs and the Future: Brain Science, Addiction and Society (2006) (39)
- General Practitioners, ‘Trouble’ and Types of Patients (1974) (38)
- "Harm reduction--coming of age": a local movement with global impact. (2007) (38)
- Results of a screening survey for co-morbid substance misuse amongst patients in treatment for psychotic disorders: prevalence and service needs in an inner London borough (2001) (38)
- Drinking in Context: Patterns, Interventions, and Partnerships (2008) (36)
- British drug policies in the 1980s: a preliminary analysis and suggestions for research. (1987) (35)
- Reliability and validity of the Opiate Treatment Index among a sample of opioid users in the United Kingdom. (1996) (35)
- HIV‐1 prevalence in community‐wide samples of injecting drug users in London, 1990–1993 (1996) (34)
- HEROIN USE IN A PROVINCIAL TOWN (1968) (34)
- Sociality in Methadone Treatment: understanding methadone treatment and service delivery as a social process (2000) (34)
- Problems and Prospects of Implementing Harm Reduction for HIV and Injecting Drug Use in High Risk Sub-Saharan African Countries (1997) (33)
- Estimation of the global number of e-cigarette users in 2020 (2021) (33)
- Drug Injecting and Syringe Sharing in Custody and in the Community: An Exploratory Survey of HIV Risk Behaviour (1990) (32)
- Pharmacy-based needle exchange (PBNX) schemes in south east England: a survey of service providers. (2000) (31)
- Seven-year follow-up of heroin addicts: abstinence and continued use compared. (1979) (30)
- AIDS And Drug Misuse: The Challenge for Policy and Practice in the 1990s (1990) (30)
- Potential development of community oriented HIV outreach among drug injectors in the UK. (1994) (30)
- Is there any legal and scientific basis for classifying electronic cigarettes as medications? (2014) (30)
- Estimating the prevalence of problem drug use in Europe. Papers arising from a scientific seminar on addiction prevalence estimation: methods and research strategies held in Strasbourg, France, 10-14 June 1996. (1997) (30)
- Prescribing Heroin: What Is The Evidence? (2003) (29)
- The diffusion of harm reduction in Europe and beyond (28)
- Clinic Attendance and Opiate Prescription Status of Heroin Addicts over a Six-Year Period (1977) (27)
- Viewpoint: Place and Space in Sociological Fieldwork (1986) (27)
- SEX-RAR guide: the rapid assessment and response guide on psychoactive substance use and sexual risk behaviour. (2002) (27)
- Stigma as a public health tool: implications for health promotion and citizen involvement. (2014) (27)
- Rapid assessment in the drugs field (2000) (26)
- The global diffusion of injecting drug use: implications for human immunodeficiency virus infection. (1993) (26)
- Prescribing drug of choice to opiate dependent drug users: a comparison of clients receiving heroin with those receiving injectable methadone at a West London drug clinic (2001) (26)
- National survey of syringe exchange schemes in England. (1990) (26)
- Harm reduction: moving through the third decade. (2010) (25)
- The prevalence and management of co‐morbid substance misuse and mental illness: results of a screening survey in substance misuse and mental health treatment populations (2001) (25)
- Who uses Cocaine? Social Profiles of Cocaine Users (1994) (24)
- Methadone maintenance treatment (1995) (22)
- The message of psychotropic drug ads. (1975) (22)
- Responding to HIV infection associated with drug injecting in Eastern Europe. (1998) (22)
- The war on heroin: British policy and the international trade in illicit drugs (1987) (21)
- Harm reduction in action: putting theory into practice (1998) (21)
- Drug injecting and HIV infection: new directions for social science research. (1992) (21)
- Recent developments in professional control: the impaired physician movement in the USA. (1985) (21)
- HIV testing and unreported HIV positivity among injecting drug users in London (1993) (21)
- Doctor-patient interaction and some problems for prescribing. (1976) (20)
- Illegal drug use in the age of ageing. (2010) (19)
- What are the implications for clinical management and service development of prevalent comorbidity in UK mental health and substance misuse treatment populations? (2004) (19)
- Prevalence of HIV infection among ex-prisoners in England. (1992) (19)
- HIV prevalence no higher among female drug injectors also involved in prostitution. (1994) (19)
- HIV prevalence and risk behaviour among female injecting drug users in London, 1990 to 1996. (1999) (19)
- Heroin Prescribing in the United Kingdom: An Overview (1996) (18)
- "Just using old works": injecting risk behaviour in prison. (1996) (18)
- Juggling Multiple Roles: Staff and Client Perceptions of Keyworker Roles and the Constraints on Delivering Counselling and Support Services in Methadone Treatment (1999) (18)
- Reconstruction of subregional diffusion of HIV infection among injecting drug users in Southeast Asia: implications for early intervention. (1994) (18)
- A Qualitative Study of the Purchasing and Distribution Patterns of Cocaine and Crack Users in England and Wales (1995) (17)
- Follow-up of a representative sample of heroin addicts. (1975) (16)
- Social care and the role of the general practitioner. (1977) (16)
- Validation of a regional drug misuse database: implications for policy and surveillance of problem drug use in the uk (1997) (15)
- Risk reduction by drug users with regard to HIV infection (1991) (15)
- Patients receiving a prescription for diamorphine (heroin) in the United Kingdom. (2006) (14)
- HIV testing, and the care and treatment of HIV positive people in English prisons. (1993) (13)
- Surveillance of problem drug use in the UK: a review of a Regional Drug Misuse Database. (1999) (12)
- Methods for assessing HIV and HIV risk among IDUs and for evaluating interventions (2005) (12)
- The future of global health is urban health (2013) (12)
- Heroin and behaviour : diversity among addicts attending London clinics (1975) (12)
- A tale of two epidemics: drugs harm reduction and tobacco harm reduction in the United Kingdom (2016) (11)
- Drug abuse in the medical profession: addict doctors and the home office. (1984) (11)
- Reductions in HIV risk behaviour and stable HIV prevalence in syringe-exchange clients and other injectors in England. (1993) (11)
- Seven year follow-up of heroin addicts: life histories summarised. (1982) (11)
- Who should collect Opiate Treatment Index data in opiate treatment outcome monitoring: clinic staff or researchers? (1996) (11)
- Injecting equipment exchange schemes in England and Scotland. (1988) (10)
- Cities Responding to HIV-1 Epidemics among Injecting Drug Users (1998) (10)
- Statistics on misuse of drugs have been misused (1998) (9)
- Assessing AIDS prevention for injecting drug users; some methodological considerations. (1992) (9)
- Public health leadership and electronic cigarette users. (2014) (9)
- Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Injecting Drug Users: Has Harm Reduction Worked? (1999) (9)
- What is AIDS doing to the drug research agenda? (1992) (9)
- Preventing the spread of HIV in injecting drug users--the experience of syringe-exchange schemes in England and Scotland. (1988) (9)
- The Future of Syringe Exchange in the Public Health Prevention of HIV Infection (1991) (8)
- Prevalence of HIV infection in a multi-site sample of injecting drug users not in contact with treatment services in England. (2000) (8)
- How credible are international databases for understanding substance use and related problems? (2015) (8)
- Heroin Prescribing in the UK: Lost Opportunities for Research (2000) (8)
- Patterns of behavior of heroin addicts. (1972) (8)
- Syringe sharing in prison (1993) (8)
- Interventions with drug injectors in the UK: Trends in risk behaviour and HIV prevalence (1996) (8)
- Drugs Futures 2025 (2007) (7)
- Stigma as a public health tool: Implications for health promotion and citizen involvement - A response to Bayer and Fairchild. (2015) (7)
- The extent of advertising of pharmaceutical products. (1976) (7)
- The role of rapid assessment methods in drug use epidemiology (2002) (7)
- The future of UK syringe exchange. (1990) (7)
- Differences in sexual behaviour and condom use among cocaine and opioid injectors in Santos, Toronto and London (1998) (7)
- Courses of Drug Use: The Concepts of Career and Natural History (1990) (6)
- Professional ideologies and the development of syringe exchange: Wales as a case study. (1997) (6)
- Continuing the epidemiological function of the addicts index—evidence from matching the home office addicts index with the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (2004) (6)
- Pathways into Receiving a Prescription for Diamorphine (Heroin) for the Treatment of Opiate Dependence in the United Kingdom (2007) (6)
- Injection drug use and emerging blood-borne diseases. (1996) (6)
- Comments on Hulse's "Australia's public health response to HIV and HCV: a role for 'affected' communities". (1997) (6)
- Emerging infectious diseases and the injection of illicit psychoactive substances (1996) (5)
- DRINKING IN CONTEXT: A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY (2006) (5)
- Negotiating a script: the dynamics of staff/client relationships (2003) (5)
- Drug prevention and HIV policy. (1990) (5)
- RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF THE OPIATE TREATMENT INDEX AMONG OPIOID USERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (1995) (5)
- Surveillance of infectious diseases in IDUs across the EU: information from the EU expert network (2004) (5)
- Making sense of official statistics. (1984) (4)
- The use of references in drug advertisements. (1976) (4)
- Nicotine: Science, regulation and policy. (2015) (4)
- Local Action on Alcohol Problems in England: ten years on (1997) (3)
- Asking the wrong questions about e-cigarettes? A response to Stan Shatenstein. (2014) (3)
- Responding to Drug Use in Jersey: findings and outcomes from a multimethod rapid assessment (2003) (3)
- Never mind the quality, feel the width Gerry V. Stimson (2006) (3)
- A process and system evaluation of the drug treatment and rehabilitation services in the Maldives (2010) (2)
- Why Körner is bad news for planning addiction services. (1986) (2)
- Health rights handbook: A guide to medical care (1978) (2)
- NINE SEPTEMBER 2005 UNAIDS & THE PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION THROUGH INJECTING DRUG USE (2005) (2)
- My time with the International Journal of Drug Policy. (2017) (2)
- Who should collect OTI data in treatment outcome monitoring: clinic staff or researchers? (1996) (2)
- Syringe exchange schemes fordrugusers inEngland andScotland (1988) (2)
- Drug policy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Harm reduction, legal environment and public health. (2016) (2)
- Promoting rational drug policy. (2001) (2)
- Drug injecting and the spread of AIDS. (1996) (2)
- A model of consumer audit for substance misuse services (1997) (2)
- The role of rapid assessment in drug use epidemiology (2004) (1)
- International Journal of Drug Policy moves to twelve issues. (2015) (1)
- Comorbidity of substance misuse and mental illness Comorbidity of substance misuse and mental illness in community mental health and substance misuse in community mental health and substance misuse services (2003) (1)
- Consumerism in Medicine: Challenging Physician Authority (Book). (1985) (1)
- Pilot UK-injectable methadone trial (pilot UK-INJECT) (2005) (1)
- A volatile time for British drug policies: commentary on the editorial by Alan Glanz. (1988) (1)
- FOLLOW-UP OF HEROIN ADDICTS (1976) (0)
- “I favor … the pursuit of social solutions to social problems.” (1976) (0)
- Subject Index Vol. 2, 1996 (1996) (0)
- Syringe-exchange schemes: part of the necessary package: a reply to Spencer Madden. (1989) (0)
- Prescribing injectable opiates for the treatment of opiate dependence (2009) (0)
- Accuracy of perceptions of hepatitis B and C status. Results require further clarification. (2000) (0)
- Social Controls and the Medical Profession (Book). (1987) (0)
- Commentary: Nascent Heroin Problems and the Unfolding British Response (2008) (0)
- Heroin Century: Tom Carnwath and Ian Smith, Routledge, London and New York, 2002, 216 pp. (2004) (0)
- Going to See the Doctor: The Consultation Process in General Practice. (1976) (0)
- Global survey of consumer organizations advocating for safer nicotine products (2023) (0)
- HIV in prisons. Report commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Donald Acheson (1991) (0)
- Science, action and the International Journal of Drug Policy (2006) (0)
- Contents (2005) (0)
- 25 years of the International Journal of Drug Policy: what next? (2014) (0)
- Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in injecting drug users in england and wales: implications for HCV drug therapy (2001) (0)
- Observations of hydrodynamics and scour potential during berthing and de-berthing of large ships at the Port of Brisbane, Australia (2019) (0)
- Review of "The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World after two years: can it be trusted?" (2020) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2019) (0)
- Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America (Book). (1981) (0)
- City Health International Conference: Empowerment, Engagement and Partnership: participating to develop healthy cities (2019) (0)
- THE PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION THR OUGH INJECTING DR UG USE (2005) (0)
- Post-Brexit opportunities for tobacco policy reform and tobacco harm reduction in the UK. (2021) (0)
- Not just a syringe-exchange (1992) (0)
- Estimation of the Global Number of Nicotine Vapers in 2020 (2021) (0)
- Tom Waller (2004) (0)
- Selecting the Right Interventions: The Need for Assessment (2013) (0)
- Hugh Masters Drug testing in the workplace : The Report of the Independent Inquiry into Drug Testing at Work Independent Inquiry into Drug Testing at Work Prescribing heroin : What is the evidence ? (2005) (0)
- Acknowledgement (1999) (0)
- Targeting Drinking Contexts: Public Disorder (2013) (0)
- Notes on contributors (1969) (0)
- Estimation of the global number of vapers: 82 million worldwide in 2021 (2023) (0)
- Can outreach work? Authors' reply to Drs Morrison and Ruben (2006) (0)
- Drug Injecting and the Spread of HIV Infection in South-East Asia (2020) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 2, 1996 (1996) (0)
- Notes on contributors (1960) (0)
- The Doctor‐Patient Relationship in General Practice (Book). (1981) (0)
- Views of a Sociologist: Drug Problems as an Everyday Part of our Society (2006) (0)
- Background Improvedmanagement ofmental illness and substancemisuse comorbidityis a National Health Service priority, but little is known about its prevalence and currentmanagement. Aims Tomeasure the prevalence of comorbidityamongpatientsofcommunity (2003) (0)
- Patterns of Drinking and Their Outcomes (2013) (0)
- The child's view of the general practitioner. (1974) (0)
- Responses to a special issue (2003) (0)
- Review was limited (2007) (0)
- Combating drug-related harm via development and education. (2001) (0)
- Review of: "Successful countering of tobacco industry efforts to overturn Thailand's ENDS ban" (2021) (0)
- Changes in methadone prescribing in England - competing interpretations (2017) (0)
- Notes on contributors (1960) (0)
- Injecting Risk Questionnaire (2017) (0)
- Editorial: Reducing drug-and alcohol-related harm (1997) (0)
- Opportunities for Targeted and Tailored Interventions (2013) (0)
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