Crystal Meth Contributes to HIV Infection Rate
Thursday September 3, 2009
Experts continue to warn that the booming crystal meth problem is contributing to new HIV cases around the country. The growing cocaine problem in the late 80's helped fuel the HIV epidemic back then. Today experts believe it is methamphetamine that is contributing to the continuing HIV problem. Users of crystal meth engage in high risk unprotected sex with multiple partners. Often times those partners are anonymous and their HIV status is not known. What's more, because there is a higher meth rate among the minority population, they are at greater risk for HIV as well. Experts fear that because meth is so cheap that use could continue to rise and along with it the number of new HIV cases.
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Does Crystal Meth contribute to AIDS or HIV? There IS a difference remember. Drugs obviously cause AIDS, i.e. poppers, cocaine, I.V. drugs, commercial factor IV, etc. They do not cause HIV, however. Too often HIV and AIDS are considered to be the same thing, which leads to confusion among the public.
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