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Injection Drug Users At Needle Exchange Program Share Few Syringes, And Those Who Do Share With Friends

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 19th, 2001

Most injection drug users who use community needle exchange programs - which aim to reduce the risk of illness spread through tainted needles - do not share their needles, according to public health researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Sharing needles raises the risk for spreading diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B and C, but a number of drug users interviewed in a two year-long study still persisted in sharing needles with close friends, the researchers wrote in the March 2001 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

"Although needle exchange...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2001-03-19)

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