Prescription opioid injection and risk of hepatitis C in relation to traditional drugs of misuse in a prospective cohort of street youth

OBJECTIVE: Despite dramatic increases in the misuse of prescription opioids, the extent to which their intravenous injection places drug users at risk of acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains unclear. We sought to compare risk of HCV acquisition from injection of prescription opioids to that fro...

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Autores principales: Hadland, Scott E, DeBeck, Kora, Kerr, Thomas, Feng, Cindy, Montaner, Julio S, Wood, Evan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
Materias:
Addiction
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25052173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005419

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25052173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005419

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