AEGiS-15IAC: Research on HIV aspects referring to the heroine addicts with pupils and students under treatment in the pilot addict centre psychiatry hospital Al. Obregia

AEGiS-15IAC: Research on HIV aspects referring to the heroine addicts with pupils and students under treatment in the pilot addict centre psychiatry hospital Al. Obregia - Bucharest.

15th International AIDS Conference

Bangkok, Thailand - July 11-16, 2004

Research on HIV aspects referring to the heroine addicts with pupils and students under treatment in the pilot addict centre psychiatry hospital Al. Obregia - Bucharest.

Int Conf AIDS 2004 Jul 11-16; 15:(abstract no. C10248)

Iosif I
Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania

BACKGROUND: The fundamental problem of the health policy concerning drugs, deals with the balancing of two fundamental directions: on the hand the legal stipulations, on the other hand, the reserves of the therapeutical methods including the participation of the civil society in its various ways (volunteers, non-governmental organizations, local communitarian societies, mass-media).

METHODS: The research was done on 120 pupils and students hospitalized for desintoxication in the drug addict Pilot addict centre psychiatry hospital Al. Obregia between November 2002 and February 2003. The main method was the interview based on 23 questions referring to the relations between the patient and his/her family, friends, school, the reasons why the patient started taking drugs, the reasons why he or she wants or not to give up. Drugs, he pieces of information concerning the harmful effects of the drugs on their health. Results and

CONCLUSIONS: Although some subjects had tried other drugs as well, (marijuana and cocaine), all of them eventually used heroine- very few inhaling, most of them inject it intravenous after an empirical preparation, being unaware of the risk that they may be contaminated with catching diseases (AIDS and others). The main reasons why they can't give up drugs are: the general manifestations, mainly the pain, the company, and the lack of will. The use of drugs is learned and maintained as a results of some positive experiences due to the agreeable effects felt after taking the drugs, forgetting the unpleasant symptoms of the use of drugs and due to the feeling that they belong to the certain social group. All the studied subjects declare that there are no risk in HIV transmision when they use the same injecting equipamentThe study showed that pupils and students hospitalized often lack basic knowledge regarding safety and do not recognize behaviors considered high risk for HIV infection.

Keywords: AEGIS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV Seropositivity, Students, Research, HIV Infections, Psychiatry, Hospitals, Schools, Mass Media, Safety, Interviews, Humans, therapy

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