HIV/AIDS Epidemiology
HIV prevalence associated with increased intravenous drug use increasing in Mexico
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 15th, 2005
"Mexico has cultivated opium poppy since before the 1900's and has been an important transit route for South American cocaine for decades. However, only recently has drug use, particularly injection drug use, been documented as an important problem," scientists in the United States report.
"Heroin is the most common drug used by Mexican injection drug users (IDUs). Increased cultivation of opium poppy in some Mexican states, lower prices for black tar heroin and increased security at U.S.-Mexican border crossings may be contributing factors to heroin use,...
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