Estonian drug users avoid HIV

  • 1999-12-02
  • By Benjamin Smith
TALLINN - Estonia, unlike the other Baltic states, has not registered an HIV epidemic among injection drug users. And no one really knows why.HIV followed the rise of heroin into the bodies of injection drug users in Latvia and Lithuania, mirroring a trend that appeared in Europe earlier this decade and is currently devastating countries like Russia and the Ukraine. Estonia, like the other Baltics, has seen a boom in illegal drug use, and the number of treated addicts has doubled every year this decade. As in Latvia and Lithuania, the biggest new drug is heroin.But while Latvia has register...
 
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