Variations in Needle Sharing Practices Among Intravenous Drug Users in Possil (Glasgow)

• NCJ Number: 122524
• Journal: British Journal of Addiction Volume: 84 Issue: 8 Dated: (August 1989) Pages: 923-927
• Author(s): M Z Rahman; J Ditton; A J M Forsyth
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 5 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

Glasgow has an intravenous drug using (IVUD) population which is probably larger but hitherto less infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than IVDUs elsewhere in Scotland.

Abstract

This 1988 study of fifty Glasgow IVDUs reports disturbingly high rates of sharing injecting equipment and points to imprisonment as a possible factor in increasing such risk taking behavior. 3 tables, 13 references. (Author abstract)