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There has long been an association between recreational drugs and AIDS. Surprisingly, some of the strongest associations are not with injection drugs, but with inhalant nitrites, widely marketed to and used by gay men, and with non-injection forms of cocaine, such as ‘crack’. This information is largely ignored by people who accept the infectious theory of AIDS, perhaps because this evidence does not fit that theory.
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General Health Risks of Recreational DrugsSome research indicates that a variety of types of drugs (and mode of use) have significant health risks. The question is whether the association with HIV indicates that the drugs, or HIV, or a combination, causes the observed poor health of many drug users.“A group of HIV-positive youth studied between 1999 and 2000 reported having more sexual partners, more unprotected sex and more drug use than HIV-positive youth studied between 1994 and 1996, say Marguerita Lightfoot, Ph.D. and colleagues at the UCLA AIDS Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine.” Ham B. Youth with HIV take more risks after new meds introduced. Health Behavior News Service. 2005 Feb 28 http://www.cfah.org/hbns/getDocument.cfm?documentID=1026 “A cohort of 19 patients with evidence of nonprogressive HIV-1 infection [i.e. no AIDS-defining illnesses] was established in 1997 at our institution…in Madrid. All patients had serologically proven HIV-1 infection for at least 10 years, repeated CD4 cell counts >500 million cells/l, and no prior history of HIV-related symptoms, in the absence of any antiretroviral therapy. Most of these individuals had been exposed to HIV-1 before 1985 or 1987, when they first tested positive for HIV-1 antibodies. One subject was known to be HIV-1 seropositive since 1979, after testing retrospectively sera stored from that time…All but one were former injecting drug users [indicating that drug use might have stimulated 'HIV' antibodies, but stopping drug use had also prevented their health from declining to 'AIDS']” Rodes B et al. Differences in disease progression in a cohort of long-term non-progressors after more than 16 years of HIV-1 infection. AIDS. 2004 May 21;18(8):1109-16. “In HIV/AIDS patients, perturbations in the antioxidant defense system, including changes in levels of antioxidant micronutrients, have been observed in plasma as well as in various tissues, particularly in…drug users. Moreover, addictive drugs of abuse have been shown to produce significant nutritional alterations that can contribute to the cognitive changes observed in HIV-1-infected persons” Shor-Posner G et al. Neuroprotection in HIV-positive drug users: implications for antioxidant therapy. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002 Oct 1;31 Suppl 2:S84-8. “in 1989 Kreek reported in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics that 11 long-term heroin users had a mean of 1500 CD4s - a significant elevation from the norm and the oppositive of what is seen in AIDS. "Heroin is a blessedly untoxic drug." concludes Kreek” Cohen J. Could Drugs, Rather Than a Virus, Be the Cause of AIDS?. Science. 1994 Dec 9;266:1649. |
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