WEST VIRGINIA STUDY DETAILS PROMISING METHOD FOR ESTIMATING RURAL INTRAVENOUS DRUG USE
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthA study published today in the American Journal of Public Health estimates that 1,857 people injected drugs in the last six months in Cabell County, W.Va., a rural county with a population of 94,958. This estimate is based on an innovative survey technique that public health officials can now use in their own rural communities to address the opioid epidemic.