Stanislaus County estimates 25-30% of injection drug users have Hepatitis C. But national data reflects 60 - 90% of injection drugs users have Hepatitis C. Hmmmm... if this is the data that the powers that be are relying on for our county we have a problem. Clearly this is not accurate information. Limited data such as this cannot be allowed to be a determining factor in our leaders' decisions around syringe exchange authorization. It is totally ridiculous that data such as this can even be considered close to reliable.
- What does the National Institute of Drug Abuse have to say about IDUs and Hep C? Click here for the first link, and then here for the second.
- For those of you who like research studies, click here for an interesting article about young IDUs.
- Don't know much about Hepatitis? Click here to be connected to the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Browse around the site to get their take on syringe access and disposal issues.
There is a ton of information out there. A good place to further your inquiry is through the 'Important Links' section on the lower left column of this blogspot.
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