Exploring the role of needle selling in a drug-using community in Baltimore, Maryland

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-60

  Latkin, Carl A ^a   Hua, Wei ^a   Davey, Melissa A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug economy; HIV AIDS; Injection drug use; Needle exchange; Secondary exchange; Syringes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALITY; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BALTIMORE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDLE SHARING; NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS; NEEDLES; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 11844255630     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200501010-00011     Document Type: Article

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