Health officials should offer 'safer crack kits,' study suggests
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By: elijahnicholas
Hooked on hookah The room is smoky. The low-lying smog smells sweet, like roses. It permeates everything in the simple living room. The white couches facing a moderately sized TV speak of a clean, but sparse, living space. Above the entryway to the kitchen hangs a sign: "To be old and wise, first one has to be young and crazy." The ...
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Cell phone users might take more risks to come down with brain tumors, according to media reports Wednesday quoting latest research from U.S. In earlier research, scientists did find a weak link between cell phone and brain tumors, whereas there was no clear indication of what risk the cell phone users were taking. "We cannot make any ...
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By: venem989
Recently here in Michigan, my local purveyor of nicotine that i use to keep the monkey on my back in a calm and sedated state of mind, has been stocking his shelves with packages that have FSC over the bar code. At first I thought i was getting a pretty sweet deal because these "safer" cigarettes could be purchased for a whole buck cheaper than ...
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- News Source: The Globe and Mail | about 1 month agoEDT Last updated on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009 3:38AM EDT S ince 2003, Vancouver has been the only city in North America where drug addicts can shoot heroin into their veins at an officially sanctioned injection site...The suggestion, made after a study...
- News Source: Macleans | about 1 month agoPeople who regularly smoke crack cocaine have a significantly higher risk of becoming infected with HIV, warn Canadian researchers, who say use of the drug has risen dramatically across the country in the last several years...Monday from Vancouver. "...
- News Source: The Globe and Mail | about 1 month agoEDT Last updated on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 6:52PM EDT H ealth authorities should consider handing out “safer crack kits” and providing supervised inhalation rooms for crack smokers to reduce the spread of HIV among crack cocaine users, a new...
- News Source: Uinta County News | about 1 month agoA new study suggests people who smoke crack cocaine have a dramatically increased risk of becoming infected with HIV...Researchers looked at 1,048 drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who were HIV-negative, and found 137 of them had contracted...
- News Source: Uinta County News | about 1 month agoDoses of crack cocaine, confiscated and being held as evidence, are seen on an envelope. (Gene Puskar/Associated Press) People who smoke crack cocaine are at increased risk of becoming infected with HIV — a finding that highlights the need to...
- News Source: Epoch Times | about 1 month agoBritish Columbia—Smoking crack cocaine daily adds to the risk of spreading HIV, a Canadian study published on Monday says, although researchers acknowledge they are not sure about the exact link. The researchers, who studied the relationship...
- Blog Source: inef.ieThe study found that people who smoke crack cocaine are at increased risk of becoming infected with HIV, but did not pinpoint the exact mechanisms behind that link. The study cited risk factors including mouth wounds that could make people ... that
- Blog Source: communities.canada.comVancouver study finds link between smoking crack, HIV. Smoking crack cocaine daily adds to the risk of spreading HIV, a Canadian study published Monday says, although researchers acknowledge they are not sure about the exact link. ...
- Blog Source: www.tobacco-facts.netIn a nine-year study of drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, researchers found that those who reported smoking crack daily were four times more likely to become infected with HIV than drug-using peers who smoked crack less often ...
- Blog Source: littlemalcolms.blogspot.comSmoking crack cocaine daily adds to the risk of spreading HIV, a Canadian study published on Monday says, although researchers acknowledge they are not sure about the exact link. The researchers, who studied the relationship between drug use and HIV
- Blog Source: abortmag.comResearchers said that when they began the study in 1996 they did not see evidence that smoking crack cocaine daily increased the risk of contracting HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. ...
- Blog Source: mariakean.2zz.orgPeople who smoke crack cocaine are at increased risk of becoming infected with HIV — a finding that highlights the need to adopt and to evaluate the use of safe inhalation rooms and safer crack kits, B.C. researchers say. Dr. Evan Wood of the B.C.
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