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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Peters, Philip J
• Pontones, Pamela
• Hoover, Karen W
• Patel, Monita R
• Galang, Romeo R
• Shields, Jessica
• Blosser, Sara J
• Spiller, Michael W
• Combs, Brittany
• Switzer, William M
• Conrad, Caitlin
• Gentry, Jessica
• Khudyakov, Yury
• Waterhouse, Dorothy
• Owen, S. Michele
• Chapman, Erika
• Roseberry, Jeremy C
• McCants, Veronica
• Weidle, Paul J
• Broz, Dita
• Samandari, Taraz
• Mermin, Jonathan
• Walthall, Jennifer
• Brooks, John T
• Duwve, Joan M

Titel

HIV Infection Linked to Injection Use of Oxymorphone in Indiana, 2014–2015

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2016-07, Vol.375 (3), p.229-239

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A rapid spread of HIV type 1 was identified in a community in Indiana and was found to be related to injection use of oxymorphone. The epidemic of prescription opioid analgesic use and abuse in the United States over the past two decades 1 has led to a marked increase in the incidence of death from opioid analgesic poisoning, with a quadrupling of the incidence from 1999 through 2011. 2 In 2009, for the first time, deaths from drug overdose (37,004 deaths, of which 60% were related to the use of opioids) outnumbered deaths from motor vehicle accidents in the United States. 3 , 4 This epidemic of prescription opioid analgesic abuse has led to increases in the numbers of persons who inject drugs, as persons transition from oral . . .