Predictors of unsafe injecting drug use
作者:
Beth R. Crisp,
James G. Barber,
Michael W. Ross,
Alex Wodak,
Julian Gold,
M. E. Miller,
期刊:
Drug and Alcohol Review
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 13,
issue 1
页码: 13-19
ISSN:0959-5236
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1080/09595239400185681
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: injecting drug use;AIDS;needle‐sharing
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThis paper reports on the incidence of unsafe injecting and the factors which influence this practice in a sample of 1245 Sydney injecting drug users (IDUs). Using a needle and syringe after someone else at some time in the last six months was reported in 41.6% of the sample. Taking into account those who claimed always to clean used needles with virucidal methods, 32.9% had placed themselves at risk of HIV infection from shared needles in the six months prior to interview.Seven factors were predictive of unsafe behaviour. These were (a) the amount spent per week on drugs, (b) the number of times a single needle was used prior to disposal, (c) having shared with a person who is now HIV infected, (d) having a regular sexual partner, (e) the proportion of times high, stoned or drunk when injecting, (f) being part of a group that injects together and (g) having been in prison.
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