Legal Syringe Purchases by Injection Drug Users, Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, 2000–2001
Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association (1996)Published 1 November 2002
Don C. Des Jarlais, Courtney McKnight, Patricia Friedmann
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The ESAP program has led to an increase in the use of pharmacies as sources of sterile injection equipment among IDUs in New York City and the effect of legal pharmacy sales on risk behaviors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection remain to be determined.
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The ESAP program has led to an increase in the use of pharmacies as sources of sterile injection equipment among IDUs in New York City. The extent to which pharmacies become an important source of sterile injection equipment and the effect of legal pharmacy sales on risk behaviors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection remain to be determined.
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