ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2015
The role of social networks and geography on risky injection behaviors of young persons who inject drugs.
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- Leveraging injection networks to prevent HIV and other blood borne infections among people who inject drugs in Kenya: design and rationale.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Testing the Relationships Between Multiple Domains of Substance Use‑Related Stigma and Depression Among a Sample of Young (18-30‑Year‑Old) People Who Inject Drugs in the Greater Chicago Area.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2025Article
- "I don't let anybody die on my watch": perspectives on the intersection of community overdose response and emergency medical services among people who use drugs in Seattle, WA.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Spatial inequities in access to medications for treatment of opioid use disorder highlight scarcity of methadone providers under counterfactual scenarios.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Reducing Sample Size While Improving Equity in Vaccine Clinical Trials: A Machine Learning-Based Recruitment Methodology with Application to Improving Trials of Hepatitis C Virus Vaccines in People Who Inject Drugs.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area.The International journal on drug policy · 2023Article
- Spatial inequities in access to medications for treatment of opioid use disorder highlight scarcity of methadone providers under counterfactual scenarios.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Injection partnership characteristics and HCV status associations with syringe and equipment sharing among people who inject drugs.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Injection drug use in an affluent beachside community in Sydney: An exploratory qualitative study.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Article
- Egocentric network characteristics of people who inject drugs in the Chicago metro area and associations with hepatitis C virus and injection risk behavior.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- Addressing injecting related risks among people who inject both opioids and stimulants: Findings from an Australian survey of people who inject drugs.Addictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
- A qualitative exploration of daily path and daily routine among people in Ukraine who inject drugs to understand associated harms.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2022Article
- Modeling hepatitis C micro-elimination among people who inject drugs with direct-acting antivirals in metropolitan Chicago.PloS one · 2022Article
- Trends in homelessness and injection practices among young urban and suburban people who inject drugs: 1997-2017.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- 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
- Negative affect, affect-related impulsivity, and receptive syringe sharing among people who inject drugs.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
- Geographically Focused Collocated Hepatitis C Screening and Treatment in Los Angeles's Skid Row.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2020Article
- Characterizing latent classes of social support among persons who inject drugs.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundLittle is known about young persons who inject drugs (PWID), who are increasingly from suburban communities and predominantly non-Hispanic white.
methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional personal network (egocentric) and geographic study of young PWID and their drug-using, sexual, and support network members in 2012-13 in metropolitan Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
resultsWe enrolled 164 young (median age=26), mostly male (65%), non-Hispanic white PWID (71%), with a self-reported HCV prevalence of 13%. Many (59%) reported multiple residences (i.e., were transient) in the past year, 45% of whom reported living in both urban and suburban places (i.e., were cross-over transients). In multivariable analyses that adjusted for participant and network member characteristics, (1) large injection networks were more common among homeless participants; and (2) syringe sharing was (a) highest among cross-over transients compared to suburban (OR=4.19 95% CI 1.69-10.35) and urban only residents (OR=2.91 95% CI 1.06-8.03), (b) higher among HCV-unknown compared HCV-negative participants (OR=4.62 95% CI 1.69-10.35), (c) more likely with network members who were cross-over transients compared to urban (OR=4.94, 95% CI 2.17-11.23) and (d) less likely with network members with HCV-unknown compared to HCV-negative status (OR=0.4 95% CI 0.19-0.84).
conclusionsWe identified homelessness as a significant risk factor for large networks and cross-over transience as a significant risk factor for syringe sharing. Further research is needed to understand the role of geographic factors promoting higher risk among these crossover transient PWID.
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