Document 0524
 DOCN  M9440524
 TI    Critical issues regarding AIDS among injecting drug users.
 DT    9404
 AU    Des Jarlais DC; Friedman SR; Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
 SO    Bull Narc. 1993;45(1):61-75. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/94138317
 AB    The paper identifies and reviews some critical issues in the field of
       human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission among intravenous drug
       users. First, it discusses political denial and compartmentalization of
       the problem, giving an example from the United States that illustrates
       the lack of a coherent national strategy. It then reviews the role that
       stereotypes play in policy-making and points out that behaviour change
       can be considerable, giving details of successful safer injection
       programmes. The conditions that foster injection as a mode of ingesting
       drugs are reviewed, as in the role of drug trans-shipment patterns,
       particularly as a possible conduit of HIV. Finally, the role of prisons
       as places for the spread of HIV, and therefore for its prevention, is
       discussed.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*ETIOLOGY/  *PREVENTION
       & CONTROL/TRANSMISSION  Denial (Psychology)  Health Behavior  *Health
       Policy  Human  Politics  Primary Prevention/*METHODS  Prisons  Risk
       Factors  Stereotyping  Substance Abuse,
       Intravenous/*COMPLICATIONS/EPIDEMIOLOGY/  *PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY  United States/EPIDEMIOLOGY  JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW
       REVIEW LITERATURE

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