HIV risk behaviors associated with the injection process: Multiperson use of drug injection equipment and paraphernalia in injection drug user networks

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2403-2423

  Needle, Richard H ^a   Coyle, Susan ^a   Cesari, Helen ^a   Trotter, Robert ^b   Clatts, Michael ^c   Koester, Stephen ^d   Price, Laurie ^b   McLellan, Eleanor ^b   Finlinson, Ann ^e   Bluthenthal, Ricky N ^f   Pierce, Todd ^g   Johnson, Jay ^h   Jones, T Stephen ⁱ   Williams, Mark ^j  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e ASSMCA Research Institute

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Mental Hlth Mental Retard Auth H ^*

^h Mental Hlth Mental Retard Auth H   (United States)

ⁱ CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^j NOVA Research Company   (United States)

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Author keywords

Drug sharing; Ethnography; HIV AIDS; Injection drug users; Injections networks

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYRINGE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 18144443114     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826089809059332     Document Type: Article

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