Hepatitis C Virus

Time-Limited Exclusion for Cocaine Use Would Result in Sizeable Blood Donor Loss

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 29th, 1998

Asking volunteer blood donors about a lifetime history of intranasal cocaine use during predonation screening could result in dishonest answers - or substantial donor loss.

To determine whether the predonation screening of blood donors should contain a question about intranasal cocaine use and whether the addition of such a question would lead to unacceptable donor loss, National Institutes of Health researcher Cathy Conry-Cantilena and colleagues administered a survey on the prevalence of intranasal drug use among volunteer blood donors. They reported their findings in a letter to the editor published in the May 1998 issue of Transfusion ("Intranasal Drug Use among...

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