Friday, January 29, 2010

How Drug Use Can deteriorate HIV Patient's Helath?

Drug use is a main cause for the spreading of HIV infection. Shared equipment for consuming drugs can transfer HIV and hepatitis. Drug use is very dangerous for people who take antiretroviral medications (ARVs).

As street drugs will have dangerous interactions with ARVs, HIV infected drug users are less inclined to take their medications. These interactions may increase or reduce the levels of ARVs or of illicit drugs. In the extreme case, ARVs can stop working and can cause a serious increase in the level of recreational drugs. So, the use of recreational drugs is banned and pharmaceutical companies should not provide them to people suffering from HIV, even to review the effects.

Sharing equipment or materials at the time of drug use also transmits hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and other serious diseases. Infected blood is pumped into a syringe and then the next user of the same syringe with the drug injects it. This is the simple way to transmit HIV from one to other person during drug use as the infected blood is directly injected into others bloodstream.

When drugs and medications come at a time to be used by the liver, they both are processed very slowly, which can lead to a fatal overdose of the medication or of the recreational drug.


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