Publications by authors named "G B Lucas"
Trajectories of medication for opioid use disorder and their impact on HIV testing among people who inject drugs in India: A longitudinal assessment of clinic-based data.
Addiction
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to track how patients used medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) over a year after starting treatment and to see if different usage patterns were linked to HIV testing among people who inject drugs in India.
- Involving 1,562 individuals from integrated care centers in seven cities, the research identified five groups based on MOUD usage: early dropout (41%), late dropout (18%), delayed dropout (10%), intermittent use (12%), and persistent use (19%).
- Results showed that those who maintained MOUD had significantly higher rates of HIV testing compared to those who dropped out early, indicating that consistent engagement with MOUD correlates with better health monitoring.
A Road Map to Hepatitis C Elimination: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Open Forum Infect Dis
November 2024
There are an estimated 3.5 million people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States, resulting in 15 000 HCV-related deaths in 2019 and approximately $7 billion annually in healthcare costs. Although the United States had experienced declining incidence, since 2010 hepatitis C infections have rebounded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEfforts to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a public health problem must include people who inject drugs (PWID). We describe the design and baseline characteristics of the Supporting Treatment Outcomes among PWID (STOP-C) trial which evaluates whether HCV treatment outcomes in PWID can be optimized by tailoring treatment support in 7 PWID-focused integrated HIV/HCV prevention/treatment centers. The design is a 3-arm, individual-level precision-randomized trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the exponential rise in the prevalence of automation, trust in such technology has become more critical than ever before. Trust is confidence in a particular entity, especially in regard to the consequences they can have for the trustor, and calibrated trust is the extent to which the judgments of trust are accurate. The focus of this paper is to reevaluate the general understanding of calibrating trust in automation, update this understanding, and apply it to worker's trust in automation in the workplace.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Perceived HIV risk may impact willingness to initiate PrEP among people who inject drugs (PWID).
Methods: We analyzed baseline data from PrEP eligible PWID in Baltimore, MD. Risk perception was assessed by PWID relative to the average risk of their age group categorized as: higher-than, lower-than, or about average.