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Questions & Answers About HIV and AIDS (PDF)
 This updated brochure has info about HIV transmission, testing and treatment.
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 Trail to Treatment (Adobe PDF format)*
Trail to Treatment is a guidebook for outreach workers, case managers, counselors and other frontline staff who refer adults to drug and alcohol treatment. It contains information that will help you and your clients access treatment.
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 Drug Abuse Trends in King County. Detailing local area drug trends based on treatment admissions, emergency department mentions and drug-caused deaths.
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 Club Drugs Roofies, Special K, Liquid X, Ecstasy , Crank and otherwise known as Club Drugs are being used by some young adults at all-night dance parties such as "raves" or "trances," dance clubs, and bars.
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 King County Needle Exchange Program
Needle exchange is designed to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne infections among injection drug users, their families and communities.
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 Facts about Name Reporting For HIV cases, having the name initially reported allows public health staff to complete case reports and accurately create the unique identifier (non-name) code.
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 What is hepatitis?
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver caused by many factors including drugs, alcohol, viral infections and more.
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What are the  harms of muscling and skin-popping?
All injectors are at risk for infections related to using needles. Muscling and skin-popping allow germs to "sit" inside muscle and fat tissue or under the skin. These are great places for abscesses and other infections to brew.
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HIV and Douching Douching after sex can actually push disease causing germs further into the body and make infection more likely. Therefore, douching is not recommended.
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Facts about Name Reporting For HIV cases, having the name initially reported allows public health staff to complete case reports and accurately create the unique identifier (non-name) code.
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