ATLANTA, GEORGIA (July 7, 2022) – A new set of publications, led by the Coalition for Applied Modeling for Prevention (CAMP), estimates the burden of injection drug use (IDU) in the United States. Findings from one study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest that the number of people who inject drugs in the U.S. has substantially grown in the past decade, estimating that nearly 4 million people injected drugs in 2018 — a five-fold increase from the most recent U.S. estimate from 2011. Other findings from the CDC-funded CAMP effort indicate a sharp rise in the burden of fatal and non-fatal overdose among people who inject drugs. DOWNLOAD FULL PRESS RELEASE BELOW.
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