The impact of Taiwan's implementation of a nationwide harm reduction program in 2006 on the use of various illicit drugs: trend analysis of first-time offenders from 2001 to 2017

• Main Authors: Wei J. Chen (Author), Chi-Ya Chen (Author), Shang-Chi Wu (Author), Kevin Chien-Chang Wu (Author), Susyan Jou (Author), Yu-Chi Tung (Author), Tzu-Pin Lu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background After implementing a nationwide harm reduction program in 2006, a dramatic decline in the incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among people with injection drug use (IDU) was observed in Taiwan. The harm reduction program might have sent out the message discou...