Open AccessMethadone Maintenance as HIV Risk Reduction With Street-Recruited Injecting Drug Users
Author(s) -
Carol F. Kwiatkowski,
Robert E. Booth
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/00126334-200104150-00014
Subject(s) - methadone , methadone maintenance , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , drug , medicine , harm reduction , heroin , reduction (mathematics) , environmental health , psychiatry , virology , geometry , mathematics
To compare changes in HIV risk behaviors between street-recruited opiate injectors who entered and remained in methadone maintenance treatment and those who did not.