Commentary warns of infections crisis among opioid users

5 April 2019
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The USA faces a public health crisis due to a rise in infectious diseases caused by the opioid epidemic.

That is the substance of a report co-authored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, heart infections, and skin and soft tissues infections are just some of the conditions that have recently risen in number among people with opioid use disorder (OUD).

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