Performance and image enhancing drug injecting in Australia

本项目旨在研究性能和形象增强药物（PIED）的使用，了解相关的社会实践，并评估PIED注射者需要哪些健康信息。在澳大利亚，pids的使用正在增加，并与严重的健康问题有关，包括血源性病毒的传播，特别是丙型肝炎（HCV）。人们对PIED注射知之甚少，国家减少危害的框架也没有准备好应对它带来的问题。该项目预计将直接为政策和实践提供信息，有可能避免丙型肝炎病毒在这一人群中的流行，并旨在最大限度地减少丙型肝炎病毒在注射类药物人群中的传播。

This project aims to research the use of performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIED), to understand the associated social practices and to assess what health information PIED injectors need. PIEDs use is increasing in Australia and is associated with serious health issues, including the transmission of blood-borne viruses, especially hepatitis C (HCV). Little is known about PIED injecting and the nation's harm reduction framework is unprepared to meet the problems it poses. This project expects to directly inform policy and practice, potentially averting an epidemic of HCV in this population, and aims to minimise HCV transmission among people who inject PIEDs.