A Tolerance for IV Drug Users Vancouver Seeks to Protect Addicts, Not Punish Them August 20, 2001 By DeNeen L. Brown ...

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.

Intravenous drug users commonly clean their needles by sticking them into rolls of toilet paper in public bathrooms.

IV Drug Use and Sepsis Using drugs intravenously can introduce a number of pathogens and toxins into your veins and body, which makes you susceptible to infection.

The clandestine operation, a harm-reduction program known as a supervised safe-injection site, is a safe place for IV drug users to get high — they bring their own drugs and are given clean needles.

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 study has found that specific regions of the brain are activated after a drug is taken intravenously but not when the same drug is taken orally, with increased activity correlating to an ...

IV Drug Use and Hepatitis C If you inject drugs into your veins, you can pass hep C by sharing needles with someone who’s infected with it.

Diabetes patients have reduced immunity, which makes them more susceptible to skin infections like boils. These can be easily treated using antibiotics.

TikTok user Dane Jones, 20, warned social media that using blood-splattered toilet paper in public bathrooms could leave them with a lifelong virus.

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 ...

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: ...