Laws prohibiting over-the-counter syringe sales to injection drug users: relations to population density, HIV prevalence, and HIV incidence | Zendy

Samuel R. Friedman | Zendy; Theresa E. Perlis | Zendy; Don C. Des Jarlais | Zendy

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Laws prohibiting over-the-counter syringe sales to injection drug users: relations to population density, HIV prevalence, and HIV incidence

Author(s) -

Samuel R. Friedman,

Theresa E. Perlis,

Don C. Des Jarlais

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.91.5.791

Subject(s) - syringe , metropolitan area , population , incidence (geometry) , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , demography , environmental health , over the counter , drug injection , law , medical prescription , family medicine , political science , pharmacology , psychiatry , sociology , physics , pathology , optics

This study sought to assess relations of laws prohibiting over-the-counter syringe sales (anti-OTC laws) to population prevalence of injection drug users and HIV prevalence or incidence among 96 US metropolitan areas.

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