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New studies strengthen evidence that drug addiction is a disease of the brain, substitution therapy necessary

Date: 27-07-2010

Two scientific lectures presented at the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria last week, demonstrated that drug use in-and-of itself is linked to increased rates of HIV transmission, giving support for evidence that substitution therapy programmes could help to stem the HIV epidemic. Currently, 10 million intravenous drug users (IDUs) are living with the

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