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The 500,000 with HCV in 1985 were not mainly heroin users
The 500,000 with HCV in 1985 were not mainly infected from heroin abuse
Finally a separate from Lord Penrose's Inquiry UK government Research Report into Heroin Abuse states
The heroin epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and its effect on crime trends - then and now Research Report 79
It is clear that by the 1990s heroin use had increased to levels perhaps 10 or 20 times greater than during the 1970s. Indeed, it has been estimated that by the mid-1980s this had increased to between 60,000 and 80,000 users. (Pearson, 1987) https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/332952/horr79.pdf
