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CRACK COCAINE INJECTION PRACTICES AND HIV RISK: FINDINGS FROM NEW YORK AND BRIDGEPORT
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CRACK COCAINE INJECTION PRACTICES AND HIV RISK: FINDINGS FROM NEW YORK AND BRIDGEPORT

Stephen Lankenau, Michael Clatts, Lloyd Goldsamt and Dorinda Welle
Journal of drug issues, v 34(2), pp 319-332
01 Apr 2004
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/002204260403400204
PMID: 18079990
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https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2136406View
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Abstract

Cocaine Drug use Health risk assessment HIV Human immunodeficiency virus Injections
This article examines the behavioral practices and health risks associated with preparing crack cocaine for injection. Using an ethno-epidemiological approach, injection drug users (n=38) were recruited between 1999 and 2000 from public settings in New York City and Bridgeport, Connecticut and responded to a semistructured interview focusing on crack injection initiation and their most recent crack injection. Study findings indicate that methods of preparing crack for injection were impacted by a transforming agent, heat applied to the "cooker," heroin use, age of the injector, and geographic location of the injector. The findings suggest that crack injectors use a variety of methods to prepare crack, which may carry different risks for the transmission of bloodborne pathogens. In particular, crack injection may be an important factor in the current HIV epidemic. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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