THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER - Drug-using aboriginal women are at particular risk of contracting hepatitis C if at least one of their parents was forced to attend a residential school, suggests a new study.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia say the study of at-risk First Nations youth is the first to find a link between historical trauma, injection drug use and hepatitis C infection.
The study published in the medical journal Open Medicine surveyed a group of 512 young, aboriginal people from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the northern B.C. city of Prince George.
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