The Role of Drugs in AIDS

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2) AIDS is restricted for over 10 years to 10,000 (4) or 0.01% of the over
100 million sexually active heterosexual Americans per year, and to 20,000 (4)
or 0.25% of the 8 million homosexuals, estimated at 10% of the adult male
population (45). But conventional venereal diseases are on the rise in the
U.S. (117), and there is no vaccine or drug against HIV. This is because AIDS
is due to drug consumption rather than sexual activity.
3) Over 72% of American AIDS cases are 20-45 year-old males (4)
although no AIDS disease is male-specific (5, 6)- because males of this age
group consume over 80% of all hard psychoactive drugs (28, 36).
4) Distinct AIDS diseases occur in distinct risk group-because they use
distinct drugs.
5) Viral AIDS occurs on average 10 years after HIV infection (2, 3, 6),
although infectious agents, as self-replicating toxins, typically strike within
weeks or months after infection (118, 119). Indeed, HIV is immunogenic, and
may be mildly pathogenic in humans within weeks after infection and is then
"effectively and rapidly limited" by antiviral immunity (120, 121). This is
because HIV infection and AIDS are unrelated events. The duration and
toxicity of drug consumption and individual thresholds for disease determine
when AIDS occurs, irrespective of when and whether HIV infects.
6) HIV, as well as many other parenterally and venereally transmitted
microbes and viruses, are mere markers for AIDS and AIDS risks (3, 43, 122)because the higher the consumption of injected (61, 78) and aphrodisiac drugs,
the more microbes accumulate.
7) Some old diseases of hemophiliacs, other recipients of transfusions,
and of the general American population are called AIDS-because they
coincide with HIV infection (3).
8) Old African diseases like slim disease, fever, diarrhea and