- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
-
Chapter 1 The Seed and the Soil -
Chapter 2 School -
Chapter 3 Medical School -
Chapter 4 Bomber Command -
Chapter 5 Peace -
Chapter 6 South Africa -
Chapter 7 Practice and Lauries Bay -
Chapter 8 Porphyria's Lover -
Chapter 9 The Curse of the Pharaohs -
Chapter 10 Lung Cancer -
Chapter 11 The Turkish Epidemic of Porphyria -
Chapter 12 Smoke -
Chapter 13 Porphyria: The Master Family Tree -
Chapter 14 King George III and the Royal Malady -
Chapter 15 Multiple Sclerosis -
Chapter 16 Arrested! -
Chapter 17 Ireland -
Chapter 18 The Medico-Social Research Board -
Chapter 19 Notebook and Shoe Leather Epidemiology -
Chapter 20 Alcohol, Heroin and AIDS -
Chapter 21 China -
Chapter 22 Retirement and a Shotgun Marriage -
Chapter 23 Cyprus, Turkey and Spain -
Chapter 24 Inshallah – God Willing -
Chapter 25 My Family and Personal Life -
Chapter 26 A Heart Attack: What Does It All Mean? -
Chapter 27 The End of the Story - Index
Alcohol, Heroin and AIDS
Alcohol, Heroin and AIDS
- Chapter:
- (p.188) Chapter 20 Alcohol, Heroin and AIDS
- Source:
- The Turnstone
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter details the Medico-Social Research Board's studies on substance abuse by young people in Ireland. In 1982/83, the board found that 10 per cent of those aged 15–24 in the area of north-central Dublin who had taken drugs were injecting heroin once or twice a day. In 1990 and 1991, the author undertook a study to determine how many of the original patients from north-central, south-central Dublin and Dun Laoghaire were HIV positive. Of those tested, 86 per cent were infected by the AIDS virus and many had died. The realisation that Ireland, like the rest of the world, was threatened with a pandemic of infection by the AIDS virus resulted in the Department of Health instigating publicity campaigns about the danger of spreading infection by sexual contact.
Keywords: young people, smoking, drug abuse, Medico-Social Research Board, Dublin, HIV infection
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
-
Chapter 1 The Seed and the Soil -
Chapter 2 School -
Chapter 3 Medical School -
Chapter 4 Bomber Command -
Chapter 5 Peace -
Chapter 6 South Africa -
Chapter 7 Practice and Lauries Bay -
Chapter 8 Porphyria's Lover -
Chapter 9 The Curse of the Pharaohs -
Chapter 10 Lung Cancer -
Chapter 11 The Turkish Epidemic of Porphyria -
Chapter 12 Smoke -
Chapter 13 Porphyria: The Master Family Tree -
Chapter 14 King George III and the Royal Malady -
Chapter 15 Multiple Sclerosis -
Chapter 16 Arrested! -
Chapter 17 Ireland -
Chapter 18 The Medico-Social Research Board -
Chapter 19 Notebook and Shoe Leather Epidemiology -
Chapter 20 Alcohol, Heroin and AIDS -
Chapter 21 China -
Chapter 22 Retirement and a Shotgun Marriage -
Chapter 23 Cyprus, Turkey and Spain -
Chapter 24 Inshallah – God Willing -
Chapter 25 My Family and Personal Life -
Chapter 26 A Heart Attack: What Does It All Mean? -
Chapter 27 The End of the Story - Index
