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| | NIDA - Publications - NIDA Notes - Vol. 18, No. 4 - Research Findings |
 | | Youths in a New York City study reported participating in ketamine injection sessions in many cities involving multiple injections, shared bottles of ketamine, and use of syringes obtained from secondary sources--practices that increase risk for hepatitis C, HIV, and other infectious diseases. |
 | | Although most youths in the study said their most recent ketamine injection had occurred in the New York metropolitan area, others said they last injected the drug in other cities, such as Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, or during outdoor raves in rural areas of West Virginia and Montana. |
 | | The diverse geographic areas where this small but highly mobile sample of high-risk youths say they have injected ketamine raises the possibility that the practice may be more common and widespread than indicated by recent epidemiological data, the study's researchers say. |
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