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Safe using messages may not be enough to promote behaviour change amongst injecting drug users who are ambivalent or indifferent towards death
Health promotion strategies ultimately rely on people perceiving the consequences of their behaviour as negative. If someone is indifferent towards death, it would logically follow that health promotion messages such as safe using messages would have little resonance. This study aimed to investigate attitudes towards death in a group of injecting drug users (IDUs) and how such attitudes may impact upon the efficacy/relevance of 'safe using' (health promotion) messages.
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Harm reduction journalVolume
6Issue
18Pagination
1 - 8Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd.Location
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1477-7517Language
engNotes
Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2009, BioMed Central Ltd.Usage metrics
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