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- Title
Physician Prescribing of Sterile Injection Equipment To Prevent HIV Infection: Time for Action.
- Authors
Burris, Scott; Lurie, Peter; Abrahamson, Daniel; Rich, Josiah D.
- Abstract
Focuses on the legal aspects of physician prescribing of sterile injection equipment to prevent HIV infection. Analysis of laws revealing that physicians in nearly all these jurisdictions may legally prescribe sterile injection equipment to prevent disease transmission among drug-using patients; Clear and reasonable legal basis for filling the prescriptions.
- Subjects
SUBCUTANEOUS injections; HYPODERMIC syringes; HIV prevention
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000, Vol 133, Issue 3, p218
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-133-3-200008010-00015