Heroin & HIV/AIDS

Heroin Fast Facts: Questions and Answers (PDF) (Regularly Updated)
From U.S. Department of Justice
New Report Exposes Shortcomings at NYC Methadone Programs (October 11, 2011)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Minnesota: Heroin Arrests Drop in Hastings, Dakota County (January 19, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United Kingdom: Prescribe Heroin on the NHS, Says Nurse Leader; Injection Rooms "Would Cut Crime and Infection Rates" (April 30, 2010)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.N. Report Documents How Opium Contributes to Spread of Disease, Deaths (October 22, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
More Heroin Could See Spike in HIV Rates: Australian National Council on Drugs (March 16, 2009)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Heroin (July 2008)
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From U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse
H Is For Heroin (PDF) (2001)
From Harm Reduction Coalition
Heroin: Abuse and Addiction (October 18, 1997)
From U.S. National Institutes of Health

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