Medical Complications of Injection Drug Use - Part II.
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 38320028.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1056/EVIDra2300019.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
Medical Complications of Injection Drug Use - Part IIDuring the past 2 decades, the risk of death, as well as the prevalence of hospitalizations in the United States, has increased substantially among people who inject drugs, mainly because of the opioid epidemic. In Part Two of this two-part review, the authors review complications observed in people who inject drugs and strategies to reduce harm.
Medical subject headings
- Substance Abuse, Intravenous
- Epidemics