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fandomnumbergeneratorVarious friends of mine worked for UFO at various points, and it gave me a lot of hope to learn that their preliminary data showed that HCV rates in young injectors were lower than in the older data that was floating around (which said that 90% of injectors would be HCV positive within 1 year).
Also, thinking about this quote:
However, while injectors frequently fail cessation programs, the UFO Study showed that the more injectors try to quit, or “take breaks” from drugs, the more likely they eventually are to succeed. That new data could inform how these and other treatment programs handle relapses in the future.
“Often these programs are very unforgiving and relapses can lead to permanent bans,” Page said. “This is likely not the best tactic for reducing disease exposure risks and also may not be optimal for helping injectors end injection drug use.”
And thinking about how it contradicts what my then therapist told me, that the fact that I’d already quit a few times, for a month or three or six, was a bad sign and meant that I needed to go into a residential program. Which at the time pretty much seemed like bullshit, but I felt really powerless to argue against anything she said. Like arguing against her treatment plan was going to be used as evidence that I couldn’t be trusted to make my own decisions. So I just dragged my feet until she gave up on getting me into a program that I couldn’t afford and that I was sure was going to result in my getting kicked out of graduate school.
