Why don’t people who use drugs know about hepatitis C elimination?

I was diagnosed with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) back in 2012 when I started on the opioid agonist therapy (OAT) medication Methadone.

I really had no idea what being on Methadone would be like or what being diagnosed with HCV really even meant. I was a lot younger then and honestly didn’t think I would be alive to see the age of 30. But, here I am, still on Methadone, but treated and cleared of HCV.

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