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Targeted prevention key to helping crack users
Friday, August 20th, 2010
July 26, 2010
The study found that participants were at a “crucially elevated risk” of health problems in part due to unstable housing, illegal incomes and frequent run-ins with the law. Participants often had both physical and mental health problems and crack use tended to happen along with other legal and illegal substance use. These users also had HIV and hepatitis C rates similar to primary injection-drug users and many users with hepatitis C didn’t know they were infected.
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