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Drug abuser

Known as: Abuser, Drug, Drug Abusers, Drug Users 
People who take drugs for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. The drugs may be legal or illegal, but their use often results in adverse medical… 
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Initiation into prescription opioid misuse amongst young injection drug users.
Review
2001
Review
2001
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Decreases Mortality and Morbidity in Patients with Advanced HIV Disease
The introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection revolutionized treatment of AIDS and HIV disease. Such… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Children of substance abusers: overview of research findings.
A relationship between parental substance abuse and subsequent alcohol problems in their children has been documented extensively… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Barriers to use of free antiretroviral therapy in injection drug users.
CONTEXT In British Columbia, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons eligible for antiretroviral therapy may receive… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
The estimated prevalence and incidence of HIV in 96 large US metropolitan areas.
OBJECTIVES This study sought to estimate the size and direction of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in US… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Validity of self-reported drug use among injection drug users and crack cocaine users recruited through street outreach
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Kaposi's sarcoma among persons with AIDS: a sexually transmitted infection?
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus infection in intravenous drug users.
To identify risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in intravenous drug users, we undertook a study of the… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
[Transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus].
THE likely routes of transmission of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were established before an etiologic agent was… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Antibodies reactive with human T-lymphotropic retroviruses (HTLV-III) in the serum of patients with AIDS.
In cats, infection with T-lymphotropic retroviruses can cause T-cell proliferation and leukemia or T-cell depletion and… 
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