Thursday, March 29, 2018

Hepatitis C in Injection-Drug Users — A Hidden Danger of the Opioid Epidemic

New England Journal of Medicine
Interview with Dr. Jake Liang on the increasing spread of hepatitis C virus associated with injection-drug use.

Perspective
Hepatitis C in Injection-Drug Users — A Hidden Danger of the Opioid Epidemic
T. Jake Liang, M.D.,
and John W. Ward, M.D.
Much has been written about the escalating crisis of opioid-overdose deaths in the United States and its mounting social and economic costs. Although political and public health leaders have begun to confront this urgent problem, hidden beneath it lies another danger: the increasing spread of hepatitis C virus (HCV) associated with injection-opioid use
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