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.

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.

A new state-run campaign will heavily push screening for hepatitis C among baby boomers and intravenous drug users. Set to launch in mid-October, the Delaware Division of Public Health program ...

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.

Preventing Hepatitis C From IV Drug Use. The only way to avoid hep C when you inject drugs is to stop. But if you can’t or won’t stop, take these measures to protect yourself: ...

A van offering clean needles, HIV and hepatitis C testing, and overdose response training for users of injected drugs made its first trip to Troy Tuesday, where it was stationed in the corner of ...