Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of injecting / Richard Pates and Jan Wichter -- The eye of the needle : an ethno epidemiological analysis of injecting drug use / Jean-Paul Grund -- Pharmaceutical aspects of injecting / Jennifer Scott -- Needle fixation / Richard Pates, Andrew McBride and Karin Arnold -- Women and injecting / Rossana Oretti and Pim Gregory -- Injecting in prisons / Daid Shewan, Heino Stover and Kate Dolan -- Hepatitis C associated with injecting drug use / Nick Crofts -- HIV and injecting drug use / Robert Heimer -- Odde commotions : some other health consequences of injecting / Andrew McBride and Jan Wichter -- Transitions to and from injecting / Matthew Southwell -- Safer injecting : individual harm reduction advice / Helen Williams and Mark Norman -- Overdose : prevalence, predictors, and prevention / Trudi Petersen and David Best -- Supervised injecting rooms / Robert Haemig and Ingrid van Beek -- Injecting drugs: the user's perspective / Jimmy Dorabjee.