Drud Addicts Switch to Inject in Economic Decline

dose addicts break to inject in economic sort out
* 20 October 2011
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DRUG users are to a greater extent likely to reach for the needle when an economic downturn bites.
An abridgment of figures from rehabilitation centres in France has revealed that as financial markets nosedived three years ago, some medicine users stopped snorting or swallowing cocaine. They started injecting the medicate instead, says Christian Ben Lakhdar at Lille Catholic University, France.
Between 2007 and 2008, whilst salary ripening rates were falling significantly, the proportion of injecting drug users rose by 1.7 per cent, he says (International Journal of Drug Policy, DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.03.004).
He speculates that the switch is driven by cost, as less of a drug is needed to achieve a high when injected.
Whether or not Ben Lakhdars hypothesis is correct, the results of his analysis suggest that economic hardship whitethorn encourage drug users to turn to riskier methods of dosing themselves that might expose them to infected diseases - something he thinks should be addressed in future judicature health policies.
A return to economic growth could chase away the situation, though.



Theoretically, when the income of users increases, an addict may decide to return to inhaling, he says.
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* 11:36 28 October 2011 by Arran Frood
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