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标题：Transition from Smoking Drugs to Injectable Drugs: Causes and Consequences
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作者：Mian Muhammad Ahmad Iqbal ; Mian Muhammad Ahsan Iqbal ; Muhammad Furqan Ashraf 等
期刊名称：Pakistan Journal of Nutrition
印刷版ISSN：1680-5194
电子版ISSN：1994-7984
出版年度：2015
卷号：14
期号：8
页码：535-539
DOI：10.3923/pjn.2015.535.539
出版社：Asian Network for Scientific Information
摘要：Main focus of this study was to investigate the causes, which pushed the smoking drug users towards the injectable drugs and its consequences on their health. In order to get the fruitful results, 30 in-depth interviews were conducted from the selected area of Faisalabad city. The findings of the study revealed that, peer pressure, first time inject to check the intensity of the new drug, no check and balance on injectable drugs and users, easy to inject, long duration of addiction, less availability of smoking drugs, fluctuation in prices and impurity in smoking drugs were the factors which pushed the young smoking drug users towards the injectable drug use. Weight loss, thinness of blood, sore wound, reddishness and abacuses in the injecting place, hepatitis C and blood cancer, were reported as physical consequences of injectable drugs.