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Relationship: Intravenous Drug Use, Alcohol and Disease

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1. Intravenous (I.V.) drug use and how it relates to both alcohol and disease. Please support discussion with academic references.

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1. Intravenous (I.V.) drug use and how it relates to both alcohol and disease. Please support discussion with academic references.

Intravenous drug users are often heavy alcohol consumers as well, and have a higher diagnosis of HIV/ AIDS (e.g, unsafe sexual practices and shared needle use). For example, one study found that the relative risk of AIDS was 3.8 times higher in the heavy drinkers than in moderate drinkers. Needle sharing was also more common in the AIDS group than in the HIV positive or HIV negative groups when the other factors were controlled for. ...

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