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Keywords: Addictive behaviors; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Biological and medical sciences; Blood Diseases; Disease control; Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control; Drug Abuse; Drug addiction; Drug use; Drug users; Epidemiologic Methods; Evidence; Female; Glasgow, Scotland; Harm Reduction; HCV; Hepatitis; Hepatitis C; Hepatitis C - epidemiology; Hepatitis C - prevention & control; Hepatitis C - transmission; Hepatitis C virus; Homelessness; Humans; Intervention; Male; Medical care; Medical sciences; Medical treatment; Meta-analysis; methadone; Methadone - therapeutic use; Miscellaneous; Narcotics - therapeutic use; needle and syringe programmes; Needle exchange programs; Needle Sharing - adverse effects; Needle Sharing - statistics & numerical data; Opiate Substitution Treatment; Opiates; Outcome Assessment, Health Care; Population; Prevention and actions; primary prevention; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Regression analysis; Risk; Sick Role; Substance abuse treatment; Substance Abuse, Intravenous - epidemiology; Substance Abuse, Intravenous - rehabilitation; Surveys; Systematic review; United Kingdom; United Kingdom - epidemiology; United Kingdom; Europe; United Kingdom--UK; British Isles, England, Avon, Bristol; British Isles, Wales; British Isles, England, Greater London, London; British Isles, Scotland, Glasgow; Human; Drug addiction; Replacement therapy; Intravenous administration; Illicit drug; Opiates; Methadone; Narcotic analgesic; needle and syringe programmes; Incidence; Virus; Prevention; Addiction; Needle; Syringe; primary prevention; opiate substitution treatment; HCV; Flaviviridae; Hepatitis C virus; Hepacivirus; Public health