ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2018
Predictors of injecting cessation among a cohort of people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.
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- Characterization of People Living with HIV Who Inject Drugs in Mexico City: Importance for Transmission and Detection.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2025Article
- Injection cessation and relapse to injection and the associated factors among people who inject drugs in Iran: The Rostam study.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2023Article
- HIV and Substance Use in Latin America: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Gender Differences in Methamphetamine Use Initiation and Trajectory of Use Among People Who Use Methamphetamine in a Mexico-U.S. Border City.Addictive disorders & their treatment · 2021Article
- Impact of cumulative incarceration and the post-release period on syringe-sharing among people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico: a longitudinal analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Article
- Social network predictors of recent and sustained injection drug use cessation: findings from a longitudinal cohort study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Article
- Peer influence of injection drug use cessation among dyads in rural eastern Kentucky.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Trajectories of injection drug use among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, 1996-2017: growth mixture modeling using data from prospective cohort studies.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019Article
- Prevalence of Coaddictions and Rate of Successful Treatment Among a French Sample of Opioid-Dependent Patients With Long-Term Opioid Substitution Therapy: The OPAL Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionLittle is known about the cessation of injecting drug use (IDU) among people who inject drugs (PWID) in low and middle-income settings, where access to effective interventions for reducing drug use (e.g., opioid substitution treatment; OST), may be limited. We measured the incidence and identified predictors of IDU cessation among a cohort of PWID in Tijuana, Mexico.
methodsData were drawn from 621 participants in Proyecto El Cuete IV, a prospective cohort of PWID recruited in 2011 and interviewed biannually to 2016. A multivariable Extended Cox model was constructed to identify socio-demographic, drug use, risk environment and health-related predictors of IDU cessation (no IDU for ≥six months).
results141 participants (23%) reported at least one IDU cessation event during follow-up. The crude IDU cessation rate was 7.3 per 100 person-years (95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 6.2-8.7). IDU cessation was negatively associated with injecting at least daily on average and heroin/methamphetamine co-injection in the past six months, and positively associated with testing HIV positive at baseline, being on methadone maintenance therapy in the past six months, and recent arrest. Concern for personal safety was also independently associated with IDU cessation.
conclusionsThe rate of IDU cessation among PWID in Tijuana was low. These findings underscore the importance of expansion of services including OST to help reduce drug use and facilitate IDU cessation for those who wish to do so. In this setting, interventions addressing individual-level economic barriers as well as broader social and structural barriers to harm reduction services are integral.
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