Puerto Rican Syndemics: Opiates, Overdoses, HIV, and the Hepatitis C Virus in a Context of Ongoing Crises
Camila Gelpí-Acosta, Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, Yesenia Aponte-Meléndez, Roberto Abadie
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Puerto Rican Syndemics: Opiates, Overdoses, HIV, and the Hepatitis C Virus in a Context of Ongoing Crises Camila Gelpí-Acosta PhD, Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz PhD, Yesenia Aponte-Meléndez MA, and Roberto Abadie PhD Affiliation Camila Gelpí-Acosta is with the Center for Drug Use and HIV and HCV Research, New York University College of Global Public Health, New York, and the Department of Social Sciences, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY), Long Island City. Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz is with the Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University-Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC. Yesenia Aponte-Meléndez is a PhD candidate at The New School for Social Research and a Project Director at the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, CUNY. Roberto Abadie is with the Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Camila Gelpí-Acosta, Associate Professor of Social Sciences at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101 (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints" link.CONTRIBUTORSThe authors contributed equally to this article. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305487 Accepted: November 16, 2019 Published Online: January 08, 2020