Dr. Kinna Thakarar

People with opioid use disorder who inject drugs commonly have co-occurring infectious disease conditions like HIV, viral hepatitis, and infective endocarditis. This presentation will review the epidemiology behind injection drug use (IDU) and infectious diseases, a clinical checklist for key health issues among people who inject drugs (PWID) with a focus on harm reduction and infection prevention, and findings from a recent study of Maine Medical Center patients with IDU-associated infective endocarditis.

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