HIV Infection and IV Drug Use: Medical Examiner Cases in Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey
Autor: | Paul W. Haberman, James Chin, John F. French |
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Rok vydání: | 1993 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Black People Medicine (miscellaneous) Poison control HIV Infections Suicide prevention Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Cause of Death Internal medicine Epidemiology Injury prevention medicine Humans Substance Abuse Intravenous New Jersey Heroin Dependence business.industry Incidence Public health Medical examiner Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Suicide Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Accidents Population Surveillance Autopsy Viral disease Drug Overdose Homicide business Coroners and Medical Examiners |
Zdroj: | The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 19:299-307 |
ISSN: | 1097-9891 0095-2990 |
Popis: | Patterns of HIV infection and IV drug use in 697 Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey, 1986-1987 Medical Examiner (ME) cases, aged 15-59 years, were examined. All cases had toxicology tests for drugs and had been autopsied. Postmortem stored sera were blind-tested and confirmed for the presence of HIV-1-antibody by the New Jersey Department of Health. All cases and IV drug users were dichotomized according to the presence/absence of HIV-1-antibody and were then analyzed for differences in demographic and postmortem characteristics. Subjects were predominantly Black men aged 30-44 years; the 119 HIV(+) cases were even more likely to be Black or Hispanic and in the 30-44 age group. Evidence of IV drug use and HIV(+) status were very highly correlated; 86 of 181 IV drug users were HIV(+). There was a low rate of suicide among HIV(+) cases and IV drug users. Only 3 of 63 suicide victims were HIV(+), and they were the only IV drug users whose manner of death was certified as suicide. Cases with toxicology findings of both heroin and cocaine were most likely to be HIV(+), followed in order by those with heroin or cocaine alone present. Cocaine alone was the illicit drug most often present in toxicology tests on all cases. Among IV drug users, heroin with cocaine was most often present. |
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