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Substance abuse experts call for government backing to prevent hepatitis C

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 17th, 2004

A team of drug researchers from Imperial College London want prevention campaigns supported by stronger government public health policies to help stop the continuing spread of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) among injecting drug users.

In a study, published in the May 2004 issue of Addiction, researchers conducted qualitative interviews with 59 injecting drug users, and found many were ignorant of the medical and transmission risks of HCV. Additionally, many thought that HCV was difficult to avoid or even inevitable.

Dr. Tim Rhodes, who is a director of the Center for Research on Drugs and Health Behavior at Imperial College London, based at...

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