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TY - JOUR
T1 - Sleepwalking through an epidemic
T2 - why social work should wake up to the threat of Hepatitis C
AU - Paylor, Ian
AU - Orgel, Michael
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - One of the many consequences of injecting drug use is the potential risk to infectious blood-borne viruses. There is evidence that the risk of contracting Hepatitis C (HCV) is greater than that of HIV. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections among drug users each year and rising incidents of ‘'crack’ injecting, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportions - the HCV epidemic. This article explores this issue and the implications it has for social work.
AB - One of the many consequences of injecting drug use is the potential risk to infectious blood-borne viruses. There is evidence that the risk of contracting Hepatitis C (HCV) is greater than that of HIV. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections among drug users each year and rising incidents of ‘'crack’ injecting, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportions - the HCV epidemic. This article explores this issue and the implications it has for social work.
KW - HCV
KW - drug users
KW - injecting
KW - epidemic
U2 - 10.1093/bjsw/bch107
DO - 10.1093/bjsw/bch107
M3 - Journal article
VL - 36
SP - 897
EP - 906
JO - British Journal of Social Work
JF - British Journal of Social Work
SN - 1468-263X
IS - 6
ER -