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AIDS Care
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One of the most conspicuous risks of HIV transmission among drug injectors involves sharing injecting equipment which has been contaminated by infected blood. The present study investigates the relationship between severity of dependence upon heroin and the sharing of previously used injecting equipment (passive sharing). Four-hundred-and-eight heroin users were contacted and interviewed. ⋯ It is a matter for some concern that many of the sharers in our sample (24%) reported having shared used injecting equipment while in custody. There was good overall awareness of the risks of health problems associated with injecting among our subjects. However, awareness of risk was not associated with avoidance of sharing behaviour.