Article 3GKTB Opioid use leads to heroin and injection-related epidemics of Hepatitis C and HIV: Study

Opioid use leads to heroin and injection-related epidemics of Hepatitis C and HIV: Study

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Heroin is worse than other drugs because people inject it much sooner, potentially resulting in increased risk of injection-related epidemics such as hepatitis C and HIV, a Keck School of Medicine of USC study shows. As more people use opioids, many switch to heroin because it's more potent and cheaper - a trend that complicates ["]

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