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Challenges posed by COVID‐19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks

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In light of the COVID‐19 pandemic, considerable effort is going into identifying and protecting those at risk. Criminalization, stigmatization and the psychological, physical, behavioural and economic consequences of substance use… Click to show full abstract

In light of the COVID‐19 pandemic, considerable effort is going into identifying and protecting those at risk. Criminalization, stigmatization and the psychological, physical, behavioural and economic consequences of substance use make people who inject drugs (PWID) extremely vulnerable to many infectious diseases. While relationships between drug use and blood‐borne and sexually transmitted infections are well studied, less attention has been paid to other infectious disease outbreaks among PWID.

Keywords: covid people; inject drugs; posed covid; drugs lessons; challenges posed; people inject

Journal Title: Journal of the International AIDS Society
Year Published: 2020

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