{"id":197,"date":"2008-12-10T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-12-10T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:25:08","slug":"unexpected-consequences-of-art-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/unexpected-consequences-of-art-rollout\/2008\/12\/10\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences of ART &#8220;Rollout&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7768059.stm\" target=\"_blank\">this BBC article<\/a>, teenagers in South Africa are grinding up antiretrovirals and then smoking them for their &#8220;hallucinogenic and relaxing effect&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Apologies for the pun on the title.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0impossible to tell with a report like this how widespread the practice is, but it&#8217;s\u00a0potentially worrisome.\u00a0 And no mention in the article which antivirals are being used, though of course one suspects efavirenz.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard rumors of a &#8220;street value&#8221; for efavirenz as a mind-altering drug, but not specifically of anyone smoking it.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have more details on this?<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to H Heller for the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this BBC article, teenagers in South Africa are grinding up antiretrovirals and then smoking them for their &#8220;hallucinogenic and relaxing effect&#8221;.\u00a0 (Apologies for the pun on the title.) It&#8217;s\u00a0impossible to tell with a report like this how widespread the practice is, but it&#8217;s\u00a0potentially worrisome.\u00a0 And no mention in the article which antivirals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,7,8,9],"tags":[78,191,423,498,736],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-hiv","category-infectious-diseases","category-misc","category-patient-care","category-policy","tag-antiretrovirals","tag-clinical-care","tag-hiv","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-policy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}