Opioids, Hepatitis C Virus Infection, and the Missing Vaccine.

Am J Public Health

Kimberly Page is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and chief of the Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque. Andrea Cox is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and holds joint appointments in molecular microbiology and immunology. Paula J. Lum is professor of medicine and program director of the Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco.

Published: February 2018

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