NEEDLE SHARING

  

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NEEDLE SHARING

Specialty Definition: NEEDLE SHARING

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Health

Usage of a single needle among two or more people for injecting drugs. Needle sharing is a high-risk behavior for contracting infectious disease. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Needle sharing

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Needle sharing is the colloquialism for the reuse of syringes by multiple illegal drug users to administer intravenous drugs, and is a primary vector for diseases which can be transmitted through blood, including hepatitis and AIDS.

See also: Needle-exchange programme

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Needle sharing."

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Commercial Usage: NEEDLE SHARING

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Books

  • Needle Sharing Among Intravenous Drug Abusers: National and International Perspectives (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: NEEDLE SHARING

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Health

The number of studies showing beneficial effects on behaviors such as needle sharing greatly outnumber those showing no effects. (references)

Risks for infection include needle sharing, frequent daily injection, cocaine injection, and sharing needles with a long-term injector. (references)

They can eliminate drug use, drug-related risk behaviors such as needle sharing, unsafe sexual practices, and, in turn, the risk of exposure to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEEDLE SHARING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

needle sharing

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: NEEDLE SHARING

Language Translations for "NEEDLE SHARING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

udveksling af sprøjter. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

doorgeven van spuiten en naalden. (various references)

   

French

  

échange de seringues. (various references)

   

German

  

Mehrfachbenutzung von Spritzen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανταλλαγή συρίγγων. (various references)

   

Italian

  

scambio de seringhe. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eedlenay aringshay

   

Portuguese

  

intercâmbio de seringas. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

intercambio de jeringuillas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NEEDLE SHARING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-h-i-l-n-n-r-s"

-2 letters: generalised.

-3 letters: garnisheed, generalise, greenheads, grenadines, handseling, hardenings, headliners, legendries, rehandling, reshingled, sanderling, serenading, slandering.

-4 letters: algerines, ashlering, deaneries, draglines, endangers, endearing, energised, engenders, engineers, engirdles, englished, engrailed, engrained, enshrined, enshrinee, ensilaged, ensnarled, garnished, garnishee, gesneriad, greenhead, greensand, grenadine, handlings, hanseling, hardening, headliner, headlines, henneries, heralding, inlanders, learnings, narghiles, nargilehs, needlings, realigned, reedlings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NEEDLE SHARING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 45 45 44 4C 45      53 48 41 52 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01000101 01000101 01000100 01001100 01000101 00100000 01010011 01001000 01000001 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#69 &#68 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#83 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0045 0044 004C 0045      0053 0048 0041 0052 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

483939384639253423552434841

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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