Aids and the Media

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2 months. Psychiatric and substance abuse disorders among people with human immunodeficiency virus infections may impair quality of life, adversely affect the need for the use of health services, impact health outcomes, and compromise adherence with complicated medication regimens. Psychiatric and substance abuse disorders may also be associated with unsafe sexual and needle-sharing behaviors that increase the likelihood of HIV transmission. To me it sounds so obvious, mixing a deadly disease and mind-altering drugs it would be impossible to think that these people would not obtain some type of substance abuse problem or psychological disorder, especially ones like anxiety, depression, GAD, panic attacks. You have just been told that you are dying: that you have a horrible, debilitating disease: how is it possible not to develop some mind/mood altering disease or “bad habit”? I think the desperation that would evolve from being told that you have AIDS, that you are going to die would send people to all different ends of the Earth to do whatever they could to make themselves “feel better” no matter what that might be. Why not use crack cocaine or heroin, what is ...