AIDS associated with injecting drug use - United States, 1995
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Injecting drug use remains one of the biggest risk factors for HIV infection and AIDS. Injecting drug addicts now represent 36% of all AIDS cases. Half of injecting drug addicts with AIDS are black and 24% are Hispanic. The number of adult and adolescent injecting drug addicts with AIDS-associated opportunistic infections (OI) increased 48% between Jan 1990 and Jun 1995. The largest increases occurred in the early 1990s and the rate of increase has been dropping since. However, the incidence of AIDs in the heterosexual partners of injecting drug addicts has increased consistently during the 1990s. Black male injecting drug addicts were 14 times more likely to have AIDS-associated OI and black female injecting drug addicts were 17 times more likely to have them. The rate of AIDS-associated OI among injecting drug addicts is highest in the Northeast, but is increasing in other regions.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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Scopolamine poisoning among heroin users - New York City, Newark, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, 1995 and 1996
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Between 1995 and 1996, health departments in four northeastern cities reported a total of 325 drug overdoses in heroin users whose heroin contained the anticholinergic drug scopolamine. Scopolamine is a component of drugs that prevent motion sickness. Many of the addicts had the typical symptoms of scopolamine overdose, including rapid heartbeat, dilated pupils, dry skin and mucous membranes and altered mental status. During this time, the Drug Enforcement Administration detected scopolamine in some heroin samples purchased through its Domestic Monitor Program.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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