title: HIV infection in drug and alcohol practice.
abstract: The injecting of illicit drugs frequently involves the sharing of injection equipment and a risk of HIV transmission. Injecting drug use at any time since 1980 should be considered a high-risk activity and users should be advised to have HIV testing. Recognition of this important lifestyle clue is more likely to occur if the doctor has evolved a practical approach to the possibility of illicit drug use.
authors.affiliation: Drug and Alcohol Services, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wodak
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications*