Xylazine Use Among People Who Inject Drugs, Philadelphia 2022

Xylazine Use Among People Who Inject Drugs, Philadelphia 2022

 

Host Shawn McNiel, MD,  is joined by Marissa Tan, DO, an Epidemiology Intelligence Service (EIS) Fellow for the Center of Disease Control and Prevention through the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Dr. Tan and her co-authors sought to help clinicians better identify individuals at risk and inform patients and clinicians about xylazine risk factors.

Dr. Tan discusses their findings from National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Survey among persons who inject drugs data and offers recommendations for clinicians and public health professionals. 

 

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Xylazine Use Among People Who Inject Drugs, Philadelphia 2022

Journal of Addiction Medicine, 18(2):p 194-200, 3/4 2024.

March-April 2024