Sustained drug use changes following hepatitis C screening
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Bruneau, J 1,2 , Zang, G 1 , Abrahamowicz, M 3 , Jutras-Aswad, D 1,4 , Daniel, M 5 , Roy, E 6,7 . 1 Research Center, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada. 2 Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 3 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada; 4 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 5 School of Population Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 6 Addiction Research and Study Program, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Québec, Canada. 7 Montreal Public Health Department, Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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