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SUMMARY:Do pharmacological interventions reduce drugs-related deaths? What
  statistical methods are there - and how can we use them to find out?  - P
 rof Sheila Bird OBE FRSE (MRC Biostatics Unit)
DTSTART:20131118T203000Z
DTEND:20131118T213000Z
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CONTACT:Mary Fortune
DESCRIPTION:Powerful well-designed randomized controlled trials together w
 ith intelligence gleaned from the clinical follow-up of research cohorts o
 f HIV-infected patients have transformed the life expectancy of HIV-infect
 ed persons from less than 10 years in the 1980s to the loss of 10 years fr
 om life-expectancy in the 21st century. By contrast\, Scotland lost more l
 ives to opiate-related deaths in the five years from 2006-2010 than to HIV
 /AIDS in 30 years. Why? To what extent do pharmacological or criminal just
 ice interventions reduce opiate-related deaths? How do we find out . . . ?
  Sheila describes discoveries in the heroin injectors' story from 1980 to 
 2012\, and how they were made. \n
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College
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