TOWARD COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES OF HIV IN INJECTION-DRUG USERS - ISSUES IN TREATMENT-BASED AND STREET-BASED SAMPLES

Citation
Jk. Watters et al., TOWARD COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES OF HIV IN INJECTION-DRUG USERS - ISSUES IN TREATMENT-BASED AND STREET-BASED SAMPLES, Substance use & misuse, 32(12-13), 1997, pp. 1709-1714
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Substance Abuse","Substance Abuse",Psychiatry,Psychology
Journal title
ISSN journal
10826084
Volume
32
Issue
12-13
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1709 - 1714
Database
ISI
SICI code
1082-6084(1997)32:12-13<1709:TCSOHI>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
In the United States, the majority of research and surveillance effort s on the role of injection drug users (IDU) in the transmission of hum an immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) have focused on convenience samples of IDUs enrolled in drug user treatment programs. These samples exclud e IDUs who are primarily injecting non-opiates and IDUs who are not or iented to entering drug user treatment. IDUs in treatment differ signi ficantly from IDUs who do not enter treatment. This underscores the im portance of sampling IDUs not in treatment.