Illicit Drug Use Revisited: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
Authors: Peter A. Selwyn
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1993)

Editorials15 November 1993Illicit Drug Use Revisited: What a Long, Strange Trip It's BeenPeter A. Selwyn, MD, MPHPeter A. Selwyn, MD, MPHYale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.Reprint Requests to: Peter A. Selwyn, MD, MPH, AIDS Program, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-119-10-199311150-00013 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail The first apparent reference to a medical complication of illicit drug injection was an article in the 1876 Lancet entitled Tetanus after hypodermic injection of morphia [1]. This brief report describes a woman who had been taught the use of the hypodermic syringe some years before for the relief of the vomiting of pregnancy, and there was some reason to believe that she had practiced the injection surreptitiously where no actual occasion for it existed. Since this description of an apparent medical curiosity, the medical literature has burgeoned with reports on the adverse sequelae of illicit drug injection, involving every ...References1. Anonymous. Tetanus after hypodermic injection of morphia. Lancet. 1876; 2:873. Google Scholar2. Office of Technology Assessment. The Effectiveness of Drug Abuse Treatment: Implications for Controlling AIDS/HIV Infection. Washington, D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990:GPO#052-003- 01210-3. Google Scholar3. Cherubin C. The medial sequelae of narcotic addiction. Ann Intern Med. 1967; 67:23-33. Google Scholar4. Sapira JD. The narcotic addict as a medical patient. Am J Med. 1968; 45:555-88. Google Scholar5. 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Sapira Metrics Cited byEvolving epidemiology of injecting drug use-associated infective endocarditis: A regional centre experienceUse of the femoral vein ('groin injecting') by a sample of needle exchange clients in Bristol, UKBacterial Infections in Drug UsersPhysician Recognition of Active Injection Drug Use In HIV-Infected Patients Is Lower Than Validity of Patient's Self-Reported Drug UseBehavioral factors affecting HIV prevention for adolescent and young adult IDUs 15 November 1993Volume 119, Issue 10Page: 1044-1046KeywordsAddictsAIDSCocaineDrug abuseDrug usersDrugsHIVHIV infectionsInjecting drug usersSubstance abuse ePublished: 15 August 2000 Issue Published: 15 November 1993 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1993 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...