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Author Topic: Hep C Skyrocketing Among Young, Non-Urban Drug Users  (Read 6252 times)

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Hep C Skyrocketing Among Young, Non-Urban Drug Users
« on: August 20, 2014, 12:46:48 pm »
As prescription drug abuse leads more Americans on a path to heroin, new cases of hepatitis C virus have increased in at least 30 states among young drug users, especially in rural, white populations east of the Mississippi.

Today, 44 percent of new hep C infections occur among people 30 years old or younger. This proportion was just 36 percent back in 2006 but rose to 49 percent by 2012.

Read more: http://www.hepmag.com/articles/IDU_heroin_2501_26053.shtml




 


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