Supporting healthy ageing for people who inject drugs and/or receive pharmacotherapies.
This project builds on an earlier project AIVL initiated in 2010, which developed a discussion paper on the lives of opioid injectors as they aged – Double Jeopardy Older Injecting Opioid Users in Australia 2010. Older drug users were a very new phenomenon and AIVL found no Australian papers on the subject to that date, which strengthened our understanding this was truly a new cohort that needed attention.