HIV prevention refers to practices done to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.HIV prevention practices may be done by individuals to protect their own health and the health of those in their community, or may be instituted by governments or other organizations as public health policies.IV prevention refers to practices done to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
According to Ã¢ Relapse & Recovery: Behavioral Strategies for Change, a research report by the Caron Foundation, rates of relapse vary from 50 percent returning to heavy use, to 90 percent experiencing brief relapse. Heroin. A highly addictive opiate drug, heroin is recognized as having a relapse rate of 87 percent after drug treatment. Particularly for chronic users who have become chemically dependent on the drug, heroin cravings have been known to exist for years after treatment.
What most people don't realize is that the majority of long-term, hard-core drug addicts are dying in their 40s and 50s. The latest studies show that the life expectancy of a drug addict is 15 to 20 years after they start being a drug addict. So what we see is a replenishment of the population, a new crop of addicts. There are no 90-year-old heroin addicts. Most of those we were recording 20 years ago have died.