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Author Topic: Important Info for HCV+ Injection Drug Users  (Read 6591 times)

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Important Info for HCV+ Injection Drug Users
« on: September 09, 2015, 12:24:11 pm »
From our latest Hep mag feature, "Journey to a Cure"

Kicking your drug habit is the best first move you can make as an IDU with hep C.

“It makes no sense to fix one liver toxin if you’re not going to stop the other toxin,” says Judith Feinberg, MD an expert on the links between HIV, hep C and heroin use.  It’s an easy link to understand, since the liver’s main job is to filter out all the poisons from the body and the bloodstream.

Even early on, hep C interferes with this toxin-filtering process and is a big risk to the health of HCV-positive IDUs, says Feinberg. In its later stages, the virus can even affect the body’s ability to metabolize drugs, potentially increasing overdose risk and causing liver-destroying chemicals to remain in the bloodstream far longer than in HCV-negative people.

What's more, today, many doctors will not treat people for hep C unless they kick their drug habits. The same goes for alcohol use.

To read the whole feature, click here: http://www.hepmag.com/articles/shelia_dewey_profile_2972_27726.shtml

 


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