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Variations in Needle Sharing Practices Among Intravenous Drug Users in Possil (Glasgow)
Author(s) -
RAHMAN M. Z.,
DITTON JASON,
FORSYTH A. J. M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1989.tb00765.x
Subject(s) - intravenous drug , imprisonment , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , population , needle sharing , demography , drug , virology , environmental health , psychology , viral disease , criminology , psychiatry , sociology , syphilis , condom
Summary Glasgow has an intravenous drug using (IVDU) population which is probably larger but hitherto less infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than IVDUs elsewhere in Scotland. This 1988 study of 50 Glasgow IVDUs reports disturbingly high rates of sharing injecting equipment, and points to imprisonment as a possible factor in increasing such risk taking behaviour.