Injecting drug use in Europe: stable or declining

Injecting drug use in Europe: stable or declining

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) estimates that there may be currently between 750,000 and 1,000,000 active injecting drug users (IDUs) in the European Union (EU). Indirect indicators such as data from drug treatment entrants suggest that the trend in injecting is...

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Veröffentlicht in:Euro surveillance : bulletin européen sur les maladies transmissibles 2010-07, Vol.15 (26), p.20
Hauptverfasser: Wiessing, L, Klempová, D, Hedrich, D, Montanari, L, Gyarmathy, V A
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Drug overdose
Drug use
Europe - epidemiology
Humans
Injections
Prevalence
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - epidemiology
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - therapy
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Zusammenfassung:The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) estimates that there may be currently between 750,000 and 1,000,000 active injecting drug users (IDUs) in the European Union (EU). Indirect indicators such as data from drug treatment entrants suggest that the trend in injecting is stable or declining. Data from studies among IDUs, however, suggest that recent recruitment into drug injecting continues in several countries. Injecting drug use is strongly associated with severe health problems in drug users, including both blood-borne infections (e.g. HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis) and overdose.
ISSN:1025-496X
1560-7917