Groin injecting among a community-recruited sample of people who inject drugs in Thailand
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Groin injecting among a community-recruited sample of people who inject drugs in Thailand
BACKGROUND Use of the femoral vein for the injection of illicit drugs (i.e. groin injecting) has been linked to various health-related harms, including deep vein thrombosis. However, little is known about the prevalence of groin injecting and factors that predict this practice among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Thailand. We sought to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with g...
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عنوان ژورنال: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1747-597X
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597x-9-4