Discrimination against drug addicts that suffer with an addiction, only a few will receive treatment due to the complexity of health care systems. Most health care systems do not have insurance coverage for addiction recovery and many health care providers have little to no training in treating addiction. Some doctors do not feel comfortable treating an addiction due to their lack of knowledge and training of the topic. This is one of the reasons why drug dependence is difficult to recover from. Among injecting drug users, the incidence of HIV infection is higher than among other drug addicts, however punitive and discriminatory measures against
Lesch–Nyhan syndrome SAMe to adult LNS patients was shown to provide improvement in neurobehavioural and other neurological attributes. The drug is available without prescription and has been widely used for depression, but its use for treating LNS should be undertaken only under strict medical supervision, as side effects are known. SAMe has also been used recently to treat another purine nucleotide disease, "Art's syndrome" (which is a PRPP disorder in common with LNS), with encouraging results. Thus SAMe may be useful for treating purine nucleotide diseases, which include LNS. The prognosis for individuals with severe LNS is poor. Death is usually due