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British Journal of Social Work 2004 34(6):897-906; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch107
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British Journal of Social Work 34/6 © BASW Trading Ltd 2004 all rights reserved

Critical Commentary

Sleepwalking through an Epidemic—Why Social Work should Wake up to the Threat of Hepatitis C

Ian Paylor and Michael Orgel

Dr Ian Paylor is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science at Lancaster University.

Dr Michael Orgel is Consultant in Substance Misuse with the Edinburgh Community Drug Problem Service.

Correspondence to Dr Ian Paylor, Department of Applied Social Science, Cartmel College, Lancaster University LA1 3HY, UK. E-mail: i.paylor1{at}lancaster.ac.uk

Summary

One of the many consequences of injecting drug use is the potential risk to infectious blood-borne viruses. There is evidence that the risk of contracting Hepatitis C (HCV) is greater than that of HIV. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections among drug users each year and rising incidents of ‘'crack’ injecting, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportions - the HCV epidemic. This article explores this issue and the implications it has for social work.

Keywords: HCV, drug users, injecting, epidemic


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