... 2 of 8using pharmaceutical agents alone in the last month.Other injecting risk behaviors, including lifetime and recent needle/syringe and injecting equipment sharing and aspirating and re-injecting ... injecting “ works” (e.g.cookers, cotton) ever and in the last three months, dura-tion of injecting, injecting while incarcerated, aspirating and re-inje cting blood (khoon bozee), and receivingassistance ... was independently asso-ciated with initiat ing inject ing outside Afghanis tan, everhaving an abscess, ever sharing needles and syringes,frequency of daily injection, and duration of injectinguse...