Much in the news at the moment is a recent study (Palamar & Cleland) of nonmedical opioid drug use amongst you people on the electronic dance music (EDM) ‘scene’ in New York. But the phenomenon is by no means confined to that city (Kurtz & Surratt). To appreciate what all the fuss is about, we […]
Category: Drugs and HCV transmission
ChemSex and HCV transmission among UK MSM
Reports of substantial rises in the incidence of HCV among MSM populations in the UK (STI/Yaphe & Klein; STI/Ghosn & Chaix) have attracted some attention in STI journal. Not least because intravenous drug use is the most obvious mode of transmission for this blood-borne virus, and MSM have in the past tended not to use this route of administration. […]