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Drug use and AIDS: estimating injection prevalence in a rural state
Carl G Leukefeld1, T K Logan, David Farabee
1Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. cleukef@pop.uky.edu
Substance Use & Misuse
|July 16, 2002
Abstract:
This paper presents approaches used in one rural U.S. state to describe the level of injecting drug use and to estimate the number of injectors not receiving drug-user treatment. The focus is on two broad areas of estimation that were used to present the prevalence of injecting drug use in Kentucky. The first estimation approach uses available data from secondary data sources. The second approach involves three small community studies.