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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...
Autores principales: | Hadland, Scott E, DeBeck, Kora, Kerr, Thomas, Feng, Cindy, Montaner, Julio S, Wood, Evan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2014
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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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