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Morbidity

Mortality Risk Among Recent-Onset Injection Drug Users in Five U.S. Cities

David Vlahov Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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Cunlin Wang Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Danielle Ompad Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Crystal M. Fuller School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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Wendy Caceres Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Lawrence Ouellet Community Outreach Intervention Projects, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Peter Kerndt Edmond de Rothschild Foundation Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Don C. Des Jarlais Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Richard S. Garfein Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/STD/TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Pages 413-428 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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