Injection drug use in the Appalachian region led to a significant syndemic of fatal overdoses and rising rates of HIV and ...
Smoking instead of injecting drugs can reduce harm, but a new study shows opioid smokers are four times as likely to suffer ...
Background: In Iran, there are an estimated 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). Injecting drug use is a relatively new phenomenon for this country, where opium smoking was the predominant form of ...
Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. ROCHESTER, N.H. — Megan Merrill paused, mid-hike, as she surveyed the steep drop before her. She was standing on a five-foot snow drift, icy ...
Harm reduction initiatives, like syringe services programs, can reduce HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. A recent executive order threatens such programs. (Photo by Robert ...
Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The critical role of injection drug use in the spread of the human immunodeficiency ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Lavender Timmons popped the trunk of her weather ...
In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...
A new study has found that more than four in five women who inject drugs have experienced violence, highlighting an urgent ...