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Article: Drug abusers prone to bacterial infections.(Of Note)
- Article from:
- Addiction Professional
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Researchers have reported a link between illegal drug abuse and susceptibility to dangerous bacterial infections, indicating that both viral illnesses such as HIV and bacterial illnesses threaten the health of drug abusers. Reporting in the November 3, 2005, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) report susceptibility to bacterial infections from several drug-using and related practices, including engaging in injection drug use or smoking a drug and then expelling the smoke into someone else's mouth. In addition, some men who have had sex with men who use crystal methamphetamine have contracted ...