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In lay language, Cocaine, AIDS, and Intravenous Drug Use presents what works and what doesn't work in counseling drug dependent persons. Those in the substance abuse treatment field have been concerned in the last few years with combating the deadly combination of cocaine addiction and AIDS. This encouraging book describes in detail, new methods being tested for effectively decreasing the risks for HIV infection of drug-dependent persons. Cocaine, AIDS, and Intravenous Drug Use shows the harsh realities of the cycle of drug use and the spread of AIDS and fosters a realistic understanding of the choices facing treatment programs and agencies. Helping to generate a research agenda for the 1990s, this needed book examines what has been successful in treatment and prevention and raises issues to promote greater research in the fields for improved treatment and prevention of drug abuse and HIV infection.
The original description of AIDS or the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome only appeared in 1981 but it rapidly burst forth onto the world scene. By 1985 when a test for HIV, the cause of AIDS, appeared it was realised that a vast silent epidemic had occurred which is still not under control. It also became apparent that the natural history of HIV was slow by comparison to most infections with a median time from infection to AIDS of around 10 years. Consequently as a new infection to medicine, HIV and AIDS required further study. This thesis has detailed the establishment of an effective HIV medical service in Edinburgh largely composed of injection drug users, the natural history of IDU related HIV, the clinical presentations to date, the effectiveness of the service and lastly the factors predicting heterosexual transmission. This thesis describes the history of Injection Drug Use or IDU and its associated infections including IDU related HIV and the epidemic in Edinburgh. In addition it also describes the clinical services established, the natural history of the disease and heterosexual transmission
As part of its work, The Expert Committee on Aids in Prisons (ECAP) prepared this Final Report in which it addresses issues that HIV/AIDS & drug use raise in federal correctional institutions & contains recommendations. Analyses issues, such as testing, housing & activities, educational programs preventive measures for inmates, protective measures for staff, health care, women inmates, etc.