Sotirios Roussos, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Evangelos Cholongitas, Spyridon Savvanis, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Andreas Kapatais, Athina Chounta, Panagiota Ioannidou, Melani Deutsch, Spilios Manolakopoulos, Vasileios Sevastianos, Maria-Vasiliki Papageorgiou, Ioannis Vlachogiannakos, Maria Mela, Ioannis Elefsiniotis, Spyridon Vrakas, Dimitrios Karagiannakis, Fani Pliarchopoulou, Savvas Chaikalis, Effrosyni Tsirogianni, Mina Psichogiou, Georgios Kalamitsis, Foteini Leobilla, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Meni Malliori, Ioannis Goulis, Georgios Papatheodoridis, Angelos Hatzakis, Vana Sypsa
BACKGROUND: Mortality among people who inject drugs (PWID) is high, with overdose and HIV infection being the main causes of death. In Greece, there have been no data on mortality, and two HIV outbreaks have been recorded in this population in the past decade. In this study, we aim to estimate the all-cause crude mortality rate and the standardised mortality ratio in this population during 2018-2022. METHODS: PWID recruited from two community-based programs in Athens and Thessaloniki during 2018-2021 were interviewed and tested for HIV/HCV...
February 22, 2024: International Journal on Drug Policy