From documenting death to comprehensive care: Applying lessons from the HIV/AIDS epidemic to addiction

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 465-466

  Wakeman, Sarah E ^a,b,c   Green, Traci C ^c,d,e   Rich, Josiah D ^c,d,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; OPIATE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADDICTION; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEATH; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG OVERDOSE; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NOTE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; EPIDEMICS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901603038     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.12.018     Document Type: Editorial

References (5)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) CDC grand rounds: prescription drug overdoses - a U.S. epidemic MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 61 1 2012 10 13
2. K.M. De Cock, H.W. Jaffe, and J.W. Curran Reflections on 30 years of AIDS Emerg Infect Dis 17 6 2011 1044 1048
3. J.H. Smith, and A. Whiteside The history of AIDS exceptionalism J Int AIDS Soc 13 2010 47
4. Z. Lazzarini What lessons can we learn from the exceptionalism debate (finally)? J Law Med Ethics 29 2001 149 151 (Pubitemid 33723264)
5. CASA Columbia. Addiction medicine: closing the gap between science and practice (June 2012). Available at: http://www.casacolumbia.org/templates/ publications-reports.aspx. Accessed September 18, 2013.