AIDS prevention : a role for community pharmacists

Abstract

'Problems associated with Drug Abuse' clearly fall within the advisory role, which pharmacists should recognize as their present and future area of special responsibility. AIDS is now a pandemic disease and is spreading at an alarming rate among IV drug abusers in many European countries and in the U.S.A. The sharing of syringes and needles contribute significantly to its spread but this may be limited if community pharmacists supply syringes and needles to drug abusers.