World AIDS Day 2013—Addiction Treatment Supports AIDS Treatment

World AIDS Day 2013—Addiction Treatment Supports AIDS Treatment
At NIDA, we always stress the principle that drug abuse treatment is AIDS prevention, because of the close links that exist between drug abuse and the spread of HIV. Injection drug use alone contributed to more than 7% of new infections in 2011 …
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Back to normal again
Since the government initiated the Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT) for drug addicts in 2005, more than 44,428 have benefited as of 2011, many being HIV carriers. Those undergoing the treatment would be able to revert to the life of normal people …
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