Addicts in Treatment Have Less Access to HIV and STI Testing

Published January 9, 2014

Addicts in Treatment Have Less Access to HIV and STI Testing
The rise of for-profit opioid treatment programs over nonprofit or publicly funded centers appears to have led to a drop in the proportion of programs offering testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV, although hepatitis C virus (HCV …
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Vermont governor shifts focus to drug abuse
"The time has come for us to stop quietly averting our eyes from the growing heroin addiction in our front yards," Shumlin said, "while we fear and fight treatment facilities in our backyards." In 2013, he said, nearly twice as many people here died …
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Local center exec's input sought on governor's speech
Sunrise is not a drug treatment center, Silver said, but families facing drug addiction are growing in number and the staff there is trained to recognize and understand those problems so they can be advocates and make referrals. That can be quite …
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