ArticleAIDS and behavior2014
Associations between injection risk and community disadvantage among suburban injection drug users in southwestern Connecticut, USA.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Hepatitis C bio-behavioural surveys in people who inject drugs-a systematic review of sensitivity to the theoretical assumptions of respondent driven sampling.Harm reduction journal · 2017Pooled it
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- Community-, network-, and individual-level predictors of uptake of medication for opioid use disorder among young people who inject drugs and their networks: A multilevel analysis.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Factors associated with receptive injection equipment sharing among people who inject drugs: findings from a multistate study at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
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- Problematic Opioid Use: A Scoping Literature Review of Profiles.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2022Article
- Drug use-related stigma, safer injection norms, and hepatitis C infection among a network-based sample of young people who inject drugs.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Rural risk environments, opioid-related overdose, and infectious diseases: A multidimensional, spatial perspective.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Social Networks of Substance-Using Populations: Key Issues and Promising New Approaches for HIV.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2019Review
- Incidence of Hepatitis C Virus and Other Bloodborne Virus Infections Among Nonurban Residents of Fairfield and New Haven Counties, Connecticut Who Inject Drugs.Connecticut medicine · 2018Article
- High-Risk Geographic Mobility Patterns among Young Urban and Suburban Persons who Inject Drugs and their Injection Network Members.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2018Article
- Deportation and mental health among migrants who inject drugs along the US-Mexico border.Global public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Increases in drug abuse, injection, and opioid overdoses in suburban communities led us to study injectors residing in suburban communities in southwestern Connecticut, US. We sought to understand the influence of residence on risk and injection-associated diseases. Injectors were recruited by respondent-driven sampling and interviewed about sociodemographics, somatic and mental health, injection risk, and interactions with healthcare, harm reduction, substance abuse treatment, and criminal justice systems. HIV, hepatitis B and C (HBV and HCV) serological testing was also conducted. Our sample was consistent in geographic distribution and age to the general population and to the patterns of heroin-associated overdose deaths in the suburban towns. High rates of interaction with drug abuse treatment and criminal justice systems contrasted with scant use of harm reduction services. The only factors associated with both dependent variables-residence in less disadvantaged census tracts and more injection risk-were younger age and injecting in one's own residence. This contrasts with the common association among urban injectors of injection-associated risk behaviors and residence in disadvantaged communities. Poor social support and moderate/severe depression were associated with risky injection practices (but not residence in specific classes of census tracts), suggesting that a region-wide dual diagnosis approach to the expansion of harm reduction services could be effective at reducing the negative consequences of injection drug use.
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