"The vast majority of the HCV patients have other needs besides seeking treatment, such as getting their next fix."
Please give a citation.
I don't doubt that many acquired HCV from drug experimentation in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but if they continued experimentation for thirty years into the turn of the century, they'd be in the ground.
I haven't been on this board in a while, but I thought, unlike Yahoo, people here refrained from wild unfounded assertions.