ArticlePublic health nutrition2016
Food insecurity among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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- Homelessness, unstable housing, and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Public health · 2021Pooled it
- Novel intervention to improve food insecurity among individuals with opioid use disorder: A randomized clinical trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Trial
- Challenges in coverage of future hepatitis C vaccines: Review and potential solutions.Vaccine · 2025Review
- Mobile Health Tool to Capture Social Determinants of Health and Their Impact on HIV Treatment Outcomes Among People Who Use Drugs: Pilot Feasibility Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Material hardship, forced displacement, and negative health outcomes among unhoused people who use drugs in Los Angeles, California and Denver, Colorado: a latent class analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Material Hardship, Forced Displacement, and Negative Health Outcomes Among Unhoused People Who Use Drugs in Los Angeles, California and Denver, Colorado: A Latent Class Analysis.Research square · 2024Article
- Nutritional status of people who inject drugs in Coastal Kenya: a cross-sectional study.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
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- Food Insecurity and Transmission Risks Among People with HIV Who Use Substances.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- Predictors of protein intake among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.The American journal on addictions · 2022Article
- Structural and community changes during COVID-19 and their effects on overdose precursors among rural people who use drugs: a mixed-methods analysis.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2022Article
- Health risk associated with residential relocation among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA: a cross sectional study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Lessons from the First Wave of COVID-19 for Improved Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Treatment: Benefits of Easier Access, Extended Take Homes, and New Delivery Modalities.Substance use & misuse · 2022Article
- The hepatitis C epidemic in Canada: An overview of recent trends in surveillance, injection drug use, harm reduction and treatment.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2021Article
- Food access among people who inject drugs in West Virginia.Harm reduction journal · 2021Article
- Food insecurity among people who inject drugs in Athens, Greece: a study in the context of ARISTOTLE programme.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Severe Food Insecurity, Gender-Based Violence, Homelessness, and HIV Risk among Street-based Female Sex Workers in Baltimore, Maryland.AIDS and behavior · 2019Article
- Longitudinal associations between food insecurity and substance use in a cohort of women with or at risk for HIV in the United States.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019Article
- Food acquisition methods and correlates of food insecurity in adults on probation in Rhode Island.PloS one · 2018Article
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objectiveWe estimated the prevalence of food insecurity among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Los Angeles and San Francisco and explored correlates of food insecurity.
designA cross-sectional study that measured 30 d food insecurity using the US Adult Food Security Survey ten-item Module developed by the US Department of Agriculture. Food insecurity was defined as including low and very low food security.
settingTwo cities in the state of California, USA. SUBJECTS: Male and female active PWID (n 777).
resultsAmong participants, 58 % reported food insecurity and 41 % reported very low food security. Food-insecure PWID were more likely to report being homeless (prevalence ratio (PR)=1·20; 95 % CI 1·05, 1·37), chest pain in the past 12 months (PR=1·19; CI 1·06, 1·35), acquiring syringes from someone who goes to a syringe exchange programme (PR=1·27; 95 % CI 1·13, 1·43) and feeling at risk for arrest for possession of drug paraphernalia (PR=1·30; 95 % CI 1·15, 1·46).
conclusionsCurrent food insecurity was common among PWID in these two cities, yet few factors were independently associated with food insecurity. These data suggest that broad strategies to improve food access for this high-risk population are urgently needed.
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