Estimating the Prevalence of Opioid use Disorder in the Cincinnati Region using Probabilistic Multiplier Methods and Model Averaging by Peter J. Mallow, Nila Sathe, Michael Topmiller, Jennifer Chubinski, Dillon Carr, Roni Christopher

“…**Background:** Opioid use disorder (OUD) and its consequences have strained the resources of health, social, and criminal justice services in the Cincinnati region. However, understanding of the potential number of people suffering from OUD is limited. …”
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STR profiling in a cohort of Saudi patients with acute leukemia by Husein A. Alhatim, PhD Student, Muhammad NH Abdullah, PhD, Suhaili A. Jamaludin, PhD, Armania B. Nurdin, PhD, Sayed A. Amer, PhD

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Death and disappearance: Measuring racial disparities in mortality and life expectancy among people in state prisons, United States 2000-2014. by Bryan L Sykes, Ernest K Chavez, Justin D Strong

“…Following the Great Recession and the push for criminal justice reforms, prisoner mortality dropped significantly and is concentrated at older ages among men during 2010-2014; the shifting pattern of mortality means that men age 30 in 2010-2014 had similar death rates as men in their early 20s during 2000-2004, representing a 7.5 year shift in age-specific mortality rates. …”
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Supervised Injecting Room Cohort Study (SIRX): study protocol by Lisa Maher, Thomas Kerr, Matthew Hickman, Alexander Thompson, Peter Higgs, Paul Dietze, Paul A Agius, Nick Scott, Daniel O’Keefe, Mark A Stoové, Jack Stone, Dylan Vella-Horne, Ashleigh C Stewart, Amanda Roxburgh, Sione Crawford, Josephine Norman, Zachary Lloyd, Nico Clark

“…The Supervised Injecting Room Cohort Study (SIRX) aims to provide evidence of the effects, including cost-effectiveness, of a SIF embedded within a community health service, the Melbourne Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR), which has a range of integrated harm reduction, health and social support services on-site.Methods and analysis The SIRX study design involves two prospective cohort studies that collect behavioural data and retrospectively and prospectively linked administrative data for primary and tertiary health services, criminal justice records, and mortality. The two cohorts are: (1) participants drawn from the existing Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study (SuperMIX; established in 2008–ongoing) through which participants consent to annual behavioural surveys (including serological testing for HIV and hepatitis B and C viruses) and linkage to administrative data; and (2) the SIRX-Registration Cohort (SIRX-R; established in 2024) comprising registered MSIR clients who consent to a baseline behavioural survey and administrative data linkage including the frequency of SIF use, and the uptake of on-site services. …”
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