A recently released study by the Coalition for Applied Modeling for Prevention (CAMP) and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the colossal rise in injection drug ...

One type of superbug bacteria is increasingly spreading among people who inject drugs, according to a new government report. Users of heroin and other injection drugs were 16 times more likely than ...

Background: In Iran, there are an estimated 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). Injecting drug use is a relatively new phenomenon for this country, where opium smoking was the predominant form of ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. As U.S. drug use behavior has shifted away from injecting and toward smoking, public health experts have been almost uniform in their reaction ...

Most people believe that smoking major drugs like heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, or cocaine is much safer than injecting the drug. After all, there are serious risks of major skin abscesses with ...

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and injection drug use are major public health problems in the United States today. The focus of this study lies at the interface of these two critical ...

Most people have an aversion to injecting drugs, especially intravenously; it's referred to as "the needle barrier." For much of the 20th century, this aversion was a powerful deterrent to the use of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the last year San Francisco Chronicle Reporter Maggie Angst and Photographer Gabrielle Lurie spent time with Austin Draper, ...