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#329 Curing Hepatitis C: A Primary Care Primer

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Hepsey Treatment - Is She a Heroin User?

60 to 70 o even 80 % of new infections are occurring in young people who inject drugs. We should be comfortable treating the substance use disorder at the same time that we're actually treating heptitese. And as for hepsey treatment, we really need to go out and find these patients. The elephant in the room here is on going heroine use. Well, there are an increasing number of people who prescribe su box primary care. There's a breed of infectious disease and a diction medicine provider that's becoming more common i'm one of emm a im boarded in both. Final consideration is re-infection rates with actively injected drugs. So if we ever want to eliminate hept

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