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22. HIV infection in drug and alcohol practice
Author(s) -
Wodak Alex
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb121752.x
Subject(s) - drug , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , illicit drug , medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , alcohol , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , family medicine , computer science , biology , telecommunications , biochemistry
The injecting of illicit drugs frequently involves the sharing of injection equipment and a risk of HIV transmission. Injecting drug use at any time since 1980 should be considered a high‐risk activity and users should be advised to have HIV testing. Recognition of this important lifestyle clue is more likely to occur if the doctor has evolved a practical approach to the possibility of illicit drug use.