At-risk drinking and injection and sexual risk behaviors of HIV-positive injection drug users entering drug treatment in New York city

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 657-661

  Arasteh, Kamyar ^a   Des Jarlais, Don C ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHADONE TREATMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NEEDLE SHARING; NEW YORK CITY; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 70350141921     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2009.0027     Document Type: Article

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