Heroin and Cocaine Trafficking and the Relationship Between Intravenous Drug Use and AIDS (New York): Hearing Before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, November 26, 1985, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 175 páginas |
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ABUSE AND CONTROL ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY AIDS virus Alfonse D'Amato arrests AXELROD bisexual Chairman RANGEL cocaine Commissioner WARD COMMITTEE ON NARCOTICS CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman curriculum deal disease Division of Substance drug abuse drug addicts drug problem drug trafficking East Harlem educational program Exodus House Federal Government GILMAN Giuliani going Harlem Harold Jaffe hear heroin HEROIN AND COCAINE heterosexual Hispanic homosexual HTLV-III/LAV immune deficiency syndrome increase individuals infected intravenous drug users involved IV drug users Jaffe kids law enforcement LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS look major methadone NARCOTICS ABUSE needle sharing Operation Pressure Point organized crime panel percent Primm prison system responsibility risk groups Scheuer SELECT COMMITTEE Senator D'Amato SENCER sexual partners street STUTMAN substance abuse Substance Abuse Services talking testimony Thank things tion transmission WEISS WHALEN WILLIE York City
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