P eople who inject drugs are the fastest-growing group at risk for hepatitis C. And yet, after receiving a diagnosis, many struggle to find sympathetic care and support, from both healthcare providers ...

People may have switched from injecting drugs to smoking due to a perception that the overdose risk is lower, according to the report. Users may also have a sense that they have “more control” over ...

FILE - A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose ...

People who inject drugs are dying at an alarming rate from endocarditis, a serious but treatable heart-valve infection. But their odds of survival improve dramatically, even five years after their ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called ...

Drug overdoses claimed the lives of more than 109,000 people in the United States in 2022, the highest number on record and a stark indication of the toll taken by the nation's opioid epidemic. Nearly ...

W hen hepatitis C was first discovered in 1989, the virus was spread largely through blood transfusions, before the blood supply was regularly screened for the virus. Now, though, hepatitis C is ...

A new report on HIV in Fiji is recommending the set-up of a needle syringe program, to provide sterile needles, as soon as ...

(CNN) — The percentage of overdose deaths linked to smoking drugs rose sharply in recent years, overtaking injection as the leading route of drug use involved in such deaths, according to a new report ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...