Black women who use intravenous drugs or had sex with IV drug users are 17 times more likely than their white counterparts to contract AIDS, the government said Thursday. And African-American men ...

An estimated 12,000 intravenous drug users roam the streets. Since 1993, Vancouver has averaged 147 illegal drug overdose deaths per year. As the death rate increases, ...

UNION, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / August 19, 2017 / Drug abuse of any kind has risks, but some methods that abusers use to take drugs are more dangerous than others. Intravenous, or IV, drug use is the act ...

Boils / Skin Abscess - Drugs for its Treatment Diabetes patients have reduced immunity, which makes them more susceptible to skin infections like boils. These can be easily treated using antibiotics.

The connection between stress and drug use is well established — and few would argue that living with the uncertainty, fear and loss brought by the COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful.

In August 2019, a claim suggesting intravenous (IV) drug users were contaminating toilet paper in public restrooms circulated on social media. In this instance, the alleged contaminant was fentanyl: ...

So, staying away from intravenous drug use does not guarantee a person will not develop this infection any more than having heart damage guarantees that a person will.

PORTSMOUTH – IV drug use can affect the sight of a person with a substance abuse disorder, temporarily, or permanently. A new study, released in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...

Carrothers distributes some 300 to 400 syringes each week. But the need to help IV drug users continues to mount. She’s now talking with a Lutheran church in Fayetteville and Episcopal churches ...

Ithaca mayor outlined possible "safe" space for intravenous drug users. — -- The town of Ithaca, New York, is contemplating the creation of "safe" spaces for drug users, highlighting how some ...

A study has found that specific regions of the brain are activated after IV drug use, but not after oral use of the same drug. Depositphotos. View 2 Images 1 / 2.