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Injecting drug use in Europe: stable or declining (Euro Surveill., extract, edited)
[Source: Euro Surveillance.org, <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19604">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Extract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 26, 01 July 2010
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Injecting drug use in Europe: stable or declining
L Wiessing 1, D Klempov? 1, D Hedrich 1, L Montanari 1, V A Gyarmathy 1
1. For the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Lisbon, Portugal
Citation style for this article: Wiessing L, Klempov? D, Hedrich D, Montanari L, Gyarmathy VA. Injecting drug use in Europe: stable or declining. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(26):pii=19604. Available online: (LINK)
Date of submission: 30 June 2010
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) estimates that there may be currently between 750,000 and 1,000,000 active injecting drug users (IDUs) in the European Union (EU). Indirect indicators such as data from drug treatment entrants suggest that the trend in injecting is stable or declining. Data from studies among IDUs, however, suggest that recent recruitment into drug injecting continues in several countries. Injecting drug use is strongly associated with severe health problems in drug users, including both blood-borne infections (e.g. HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis) and overdose. These results are presented in the report on trends in injecting drug use in Europe recently published by the (EMCCDA) [1].
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[Source: Euro Surveillance.org, <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19604">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Extract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 26, 01 July 2010
News
Injecting drug use in Europe: stable or declining
L Wiessing 1, D Klempov? 1, D Hedrich 1, L Montanari 1, V A Gyarmathy 1
1. For the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Lisbon, Portugal
Citation style for this article: Wiessing L, Klempov? D, Hedrich D, Montanari L, Gyarmathy VA. Injecting drug use in Europe: stable or declining. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(26):pii=19604. Available online: (LINK)
Date of submission: 30 June 2010
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) estimates that there may be currently between 750,000 and 1,000,000 active injecting drug users (IDUs) in the European Union (EU). Indirect indicators such as data from drug treatment entrants suggest that the trend in injecting is stable or declining. Data from studies among IDUs, however, suggest that recent recruitment into drug injecting continues in several countries. Injecting drug use is strongly associated with severe health problems in drug users, including both blood-borne infections (e.g. HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis) and overdose. These results are presented in the report on trends in injecting drug use in Europe recently published by the (EMCCDA) [1].
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