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Challenges Posed by COVID-19 to People Who Inject Drugs and Lessons from Other Outbreaks

This is an academic paper that discusses how the coronavirus pandemic will disproportionately impact people who use drugs directly, through homelessness, cormorbidities, and incarceration, and indirectly, through closing down or restricting vital services. 

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Challenges posed by COVID-19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks
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Vasylyeva, T.I., Smyrnov, P., Strathdee, S., Friedman, S.R. (2020) Challenges posed by COVID-19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks. J Int AIDS Soc, 23(7), e25583.