Social circumstances of initiation of injection drug use and early shooting gallery attendance: implications for HIV intervention among adolescent and young adult injection drug users

Authors :: Fuller, Crystal M.
Vlahov, David
Latkin, Carl A.
Ompad, Danielle C.
Celentano, David D.
Strathdee, Steffanie A.
Source :: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999). Jan, 2003, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p86, 8 p.
Publication Year :: 2003
Abstract: Research has been conducted on relationship between early shooting gallery attendance and HIV prevalence among young adult and adolescent injection drug users. Results demonstrate that young new injection drug users attending early shooting gallery tend to be initiated by older high-risk injection drug users, and that HIV may be transmitted from the older group of injection drug users to the younger one.

Subjects :: Intravenous drug abuse -- Social aspects
Intravenous drug abuse -- Demographic aspects
Intravenous drug abuse -- Health aspects
Intravenous drug abuse -- Risk factors
Epidemiology -- Statistics
Epidemiology -- Research
HIV patients -- Demographic aspects
HIV patients -- Health aspects
HIV patients -- Care and treatment
HIV infection -- Prevention
HIV infection -- Demographic aspects
HIV infection -- Health aspects
AIDS (Disease) -- Research
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