Open AccessFeasibility of One-Time Use of Sterile Syringes: A Study of Active Injection Drug Users in Seven United States Metropolitan Areas
Author(s) -
Alice Gleghorn,
Linda Wright-De Agüero,
Colin Flynn
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2331-6993
pISSN - 1077-9450
DOI - 10.1097/00042560-199802001-00007
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , injection drug use , drug , syringe , medicine , drug injection , pharmacology , pathology , psychiatry
To assess the feasibility of advice to injection drug users (IDUs) to use a sterile syringe for each injection, we examined sources of syringes, syringe use and reuse, and barriers to and facilitators of compliance with the one-time use of syringes by active IDUs in seven U.S. metropolitan areas.