Bolekhan V, Zmushko EI; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1998; 12: 378 (abstract no. 23186).
AIDS Department, Medico-Military Academy, Russia.
The most available and wide-spread narcotics in Russia are home-made drug compounds that contain along with the main drug substance a great amount of toxic components. These narcotics include opium preparations obtained by means of primitive technique from the poppy straw. Clinical analysis of these preparations shows that opium alkaloids account for only 37% of the obtained substance while the other 63% are presented by toxic products. In order to neutralize these toxins, the clandestine drug manufacturers utilize different chemical agents. Sometimes, in the absence of such agent they use human blood that possesses a good absorption property. The profitableness of it's usage is obvious, as far as every 1 ml of acetic anhydride bought illegally costs 1$. At the same time human blood is much cheaper as it may be either an own one or taken from the nearest neighborhood. Purification of the drug obtained from one glass of poppy straw requires the usage of several drops or 4-5 ml of fresh blood. Since drug addicts are predominantly pushers as well, the risk of contamination of the drug via infected blood is rather high. The chance to got infection even after a single injection of this drug tends to be maximal. Apart from the well-known factors such as the lack of individual containers, syringes and needles, contaminated drug presents an active and the most significant factor of parenteral HIV-infection transmission epidemiology.
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Keywords:
- AIDS Vaccines
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Anti-HIV Agents
- HIV
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- HIV Seroprevalence
- Housing
- Humans
- Narcotics
- Needles
- Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Russia
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Syringes
- transmission
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UI: 102228816
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