Paylor, Ian and Orgel, Michael (2004) Sleepwalking through an epidemic:why social work should wake up to the threat of Hepatitis C. British Journal of Social Work, 36 (6). pp. 897-906. ISSN 1468-263X
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Abstract
One of the many consequences of injecting drug use is the potential risk to infectious blood-borne viruses. There is evidence that the risk of contracting Hepatitis C (HCV) is greater than that of HIV. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections among drug users each year and rising incidents of ‘'crack’ injecting, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportions - the HCV epidemic. This article explores this issue and the implications it has for social work.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Social Work |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | HCV ; drug users ; injecting ; epidemic |
| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Applied Social Science |
| ID Code: | 50675 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 02 Nov 2011 11:31 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 19:42 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/50675 |
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