{"id":2911,"date":"2009-07-21T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2009-07-21T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:16:13","slug":"drugs-and-the-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/drugs-and-the-immune-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs And The Immune System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>It has been known for more than two decades that many illicit drugs inflict damage on the immune system leaving the body open to a host of opportunistic infections, not the least of which is the HIV virus. Other drugs accelerate the progression of HIV to full blown AIDS. A study published in the American Journal of Public Health 87:585-590, noted that the risk of AIDS mortality in marijuana users versus non-users was approximately doubled, though the authors insisted this phenomenon was related more to male homosexuality behaviour than to smoking marijuana, a drug known to undermine the immune system.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Source: the American Journal of Public Health 87:585-590, Feb 2002.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been known for more than two decades that many illicit drugs inflict damage on the immune system leaving the body open to a host of opportunistic infections, not the least of which is the HIV virus. Other drugs accelerate the progression of HIV to full blown AIDS. A study published in the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}