... borrowing of syringes) combined with the influx of HIV-positive drug users from adjacent regions and countries [21].National drug monitoring in the Netherlands has foundinjecting drug use more ... well. However, in the Netherlands, the injection of drugs has decreased sub-stantially in the last years [6-8] and injection of crack israre. Moreover, most IDUs are included in opioid sub-stitution ... pro-grams,whichmakedataavailableforstudyanddiseasemonitoring. However, both regions differ greatly in size and their history of drug use. In Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, metha-done has been prescribed since the 1980s [7], providingsubstitution...