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2024, 'A data-driven approach to implementing the HPTN 094 complex intervention INTEGRA in local communities', Implementation Science, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-024-01363-x
,2024, 'A phase 3 randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of mirtazapine as a pharmacotherapy for methamphetamine use disorder: a study protocol for the Tina Trial', Trials, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08238-y
,2024, 'Delivering integrated strategies from a mobile unit to address the intertwining epidemics of HIV and addiction in people who inject drugs: the HPTN 094 randomized controlled trial protocol (the INTEGRA Study)', Trials, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07899-5
,2024, 'Perspectives on benefits and risks of creation of an “injection drug use” billing code', Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2024.209392
,2024, 'Scaling Emergency Department Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Across California to Reduce Overdose Deaths, 2019–2023', American Journal of Public Health, 114, pp. 874 - 878, http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307710
,2024, 'Overdose and COVID-19 in Baja California, Mexico: The Need for New Methodologies for Understanding Local Trends', American Journal of Public Health, 114, pp. 590 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307672
,2024, 'Direct-acting antiviral therapies for hepatitis C infection: global registration, reimbursement, and restrictions', The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 9, pp. 366 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(23)00335-7
,2024, 'Impact of Potential Case Misclassification by Administrative Diagnostic Codes on Outcome Assessment of Observational Study for People Who Inject Drugs', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae030
,2024, 'Hepatitis C Treatment Among Primary Care and Specialty Providers: A Single Center Study, 2015 to 2022', Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501319241253521
,2024, 'Leveraging pooled medical examiner records to surveil complex and emerging patterns of polysubstance use in the United States', International Journal of Drug Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104397
,2023, 'Intersections between syndemic conditions and stages along the continuum of overdose risk among women who inject drugs in Mexicali, Mexico', Harm Reduction Journal, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00815-9
,2023, 'Fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine-based counterfeit pills sold at tourist-oriented pharmacies in Mexico: An ethnographic and drug checking study', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110819
,2023, 'Longitudinal changes in co-involved drugs, comorbidities, and demographics of methamphetamine-related deaths in Los Angeles County', Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2023.209101
,2023, 'Addressing opioid use disorder: Mexico's step backwards', The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2023.100520
,2023, 'Implementing a decentralized opioid overdose prevention strategy in Mexico, a pending public policy issue', The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2023.100535
,2023, 'US drug overdose mortality rose faster among hispanics than non-hispanics from 2010 to 2021', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109859
,2023, 'Long-Acting Injectable Therapy for People with HIV: Looking Ahead with Lessons from Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine', AIDS and Behavior, 27, pp. 10 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03817-z
,2022, 'COVID-19 needs no passport: the interrelationship of the COVID-19 pandemic along the U.S.-Mexico border', BMC Public Health, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13513-1
,2022, 'Increased rates of blood culture contamination during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic', Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 43, pp. 1719 - 1721, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.292
,2022, 'Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Identify People Who Inject Drugs in Electronic Health Records', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac471
,2022, 'Behavior change after fentanyl testing at a safe consumption space for women in Northern Mexico: A pilot study', International Journal of Drug Policy, 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103745
,2022, 'Development and Validation of Machine Models Using Natural Language Processing to Classify Substances Involved in Overdose Deaths', JAMA network open, 5, pp. e2225593, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.25593
,2022, 'Xylazine spreads across the US: A growing component of the increasingly synthetic and polysubstance overdose crisis', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109380
,2022, 'Frequency of reported methamphetamine use linked to prevalence of clinical conditions, sexual risk behaviors, and social adversity in diverse men who have sex with men in Los Angeles', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109320
,2022, 'Perspectives on preparing for long-acting injectable treatment for HIV among consumer, clinical and nonclinical stakeholders: A qualitative study exploring the anticipated challenges and opportunities for implementation in Los Angeles County', PLoS ONE, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262926
,2022, 'Impact of an overdose reversal program in the context of a safe consumption site in Northern Mexico.', Drug Alcohol Depend Rep, 2, pp. 100021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dadr.2021.100021
,2021, 'Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients Who Received Compassionate-Use Leronlimab', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 73, pp. E4082 - E4089, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1583
,2021, 'Rapid Adoption of Low-Threshold Buprenorphine Treatment at California Emergency Departments Participating in the CA Bridge Program', Annals of Emergency Medicine, 78, pp. 759 - 772, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.05.024
,2021, 'Beyond the 405 and the 5: Geographic Variations and Factors Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Positivity Rates in Los Angeles County', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 73, pp. E2970 - E2975, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1692
,2021, 'Overlapping Key Populations and HIV Transmission in Tijuana, Mexico: A Modelling Analysis of Epidemic Drivers', AIDS and Behavior, 25, pp. 3814 - 3827, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03361-2
,2021, 'Primary, Recall, and Decay Kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Antibody Responses', ACS Nano, 15, pp. 11180 - 11191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c03972
,2021, 'Diabetes and Overweight/Obesity Are Independent, Nonadditive Risk Factors for In-Hospital Severity of COVID-19: An International, Multicenter Retrospective Meta-analysis', DIABETES CARE, 44, pp. 1281 - 1290, http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc20-2676
,2021, 'Addressing long overdue social and structural determinants of the opioid epidemic', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108679
,2021, 'Voting with their feet: Social factors linked with treatment for opioid use disorder using same-day buprenorphine delivered in California hospitals', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108673
,2021, 'Discharge Clinical Characteristics and Post-Discharge Events in Patients with Severe COVID-19: A Descriptive Case Series', Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36, pp. 1017 - 1022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06494-7
,2021, 'Sharp decline in hospital and emergency department initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder during COVID-19 state of emergency in California', Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108260
,2021, 'Geographical and socioeconomic disparities in opioid access in Mexico, 2015–19: a retrospective analysis of surveillance data', The Lancet Public Health, 6, pp. e88 - e96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30260-7
,2021, 'Characterizing Self-Reports of Self-Identified Patient Experiences with Methadone Maintenance Treatment on an Online Community during COVID-19', Substance Use and Misuse, 56, pp. 2134 - 2140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.1972317
,2020, '1705. Treatment of Disseminated Adenovirus with Cidofovir in a Patient with HIV and ESRD', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 7, pp. S835 - S835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.1883
,2020, 'Obesity and smoking as risk factors for invasive mechanical ventilation in COVID-19: A retrospective, observational cohort study', PLoS ONE, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238552
,2020, 'Diagnostic yield of repeat testing for SARS-CoV-2: Experience from a large health system in Los Angeles', International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 100, pp. 298 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.08.048
,2020, 'Rapid decay of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in persons with mild Covid-19', New England Journal of Medicine, 383, pp. 1085 - 1087, http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2025179
,2020, 'A machine learning algorithm to increase COVID-19 inpatient diagnostic capacity', PLoS ONE, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239474
,2020, 'Collective Call to Action for HIV/AIDS Community-Based Collaborative Science in the Era of COVID-19', AIDS and Behavior, 24, pp. 2013 - 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-02860-y
,2020, 'Association between self-reported marijuana use and incident diabetes in women and men with and at risk for HIV', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.107935
,, 2020, 'Erratum: Depot Buprenorphine Injection in the Management of Opioid Use Disorder: From Development to Implementation [Corrigendum].', Subst Abuse Rehabil, 11, pp. 19 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/SAR.S247083
2019, 'Long term surgical outcomes for infective endocarditis in people who inject drugs: A systematic review and meta-analysis', BMC Infectious Diseases, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4558-2
,2019, 'Effective use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) Among stimulant users with multiple condomless sex partners: a longitudinal study of men who have sex with men in Los Angeles', AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 31, pp. 1228 - 1233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2019.1595523
,2019, 'Methamphetamine use drives decreases in viral suppression for people living with HIV released from a large municipal jail: Results of the LINK LA clinical trial', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 202, pp. 178 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.05.007
,2019, 'Where is the opioid use epidemic in Mexico? A cautionary tale for policymakers south of the US–Mexico border', American Journal of Public Health, 109, pp. 73 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304767
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