Document 2446
 DOCN  M94A2446
 TI    Impact of AIDS in the prognosis of intravenous drug addiction.
 DT    9412
 AU    Egea JM; Muga R; Rodriguez R; Moreno I; Navio M; Tor J; Infectious
       Diseases Unit, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol,; Barcelona, Spain.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):302 (abstract no. PC0138). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370129
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To estimate the long-term progression and mortality in a
       cohort of intravenous drug users (IDUs). METHODS: 204 (157 men, 47
       women) IDUs admitted to detoxification treatment between 2/1/87 and
       1/31/89 were consecutively assessed in the second semester of 1993.
       RESULTS: Mean age: 25 years; length of addiction: 47 months; Prevalence
       HIV(+): 67%. Available data were obtained in 81.8% of admitted IDUs
       (167/204). TABULAR DATA, SEE ABSTRACT VOLUME. CONCLUSIONS: There is an
       excess of deaths among young injecting drug users in Barcelona. AIDS and
       overdose has expanded from a problem that appears to affect a great
       number of heroin injectors.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*COMPLICATIONS  Adult  Cohort Studies
       Female  Human  Male  Prognosis  Spain/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Substance Abuse,
       Intravenous/COMPLICATIONS/*MORTALITY  MEETING ABSTRACT

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