Long-Term Study Measures HIV and Overdose Deaths Among Inmates
Author: Margaret Moreland.
Source: Volume 17, Number 05, July/August 2016 , pp.73-73(1)
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Abstract:
This article summarizes the results of a study (“A Comparison of Liver Disease Mortality with HIV and Overdose Mortality among Georgia Prisoners and Releasees: A 2-Decade Cohort Study of Prisoners Incarcerated in 1991” by Anne C. Spaulding, Akshay Sharma, Lauren C. Messina, Maria Zlotorzynska, Lesley Miller, and Ingrid A. Binswanger, published in 105 American Journal of Public Health E51) that examined the long-term survival of inmates with substance use histories. During the period of the study, as deaths from HIV declined, deaths from liver-related diseases linked to drug us, such as Hepatitis, C have increased. The authors suggest policies for drug screening and treatment to reduce the rising mortality from drug-abuse related liver disease.Keywords: HIV; Liver Disease; substance use
Affiliations:
1: Pace University School of Law Library.