Reductions in High-Risk Drug Use Behaviors Among Participants in the Baltimore Needle Exchange Program
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes & Human RetrovirologyPublished 1 December 1997
David Vlahov, Benjamin Junge, Ronald Brookmeyer, Sylvia Cohn, Elise D. Riley, Haroutune K. Armenian
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These results show rapid and mostly large reductions in a variety of risky injection drug use behaviors, consistent with earlier reports showing an association between behavioral risk reduction and participation in a needle exchange program.
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These results show rapid and mostly large reductions in a variety of risky injection drug use behaviors. Study findings are consistent with earlier reports showing an association between behavioral risk reduction and participation in a needle exchange program.
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