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Bridge to services: drug injectors' awareness and utilization of drug user treatment and social service refferrals, medical care, and HIV testing provided by needle exchange programs
(Un lien entre les services : information des usagers de drogue par voie intraveineuse ayant recours à un traitement ou fréquentant les services sociaux, soins médicaux et dépistage du VIH par les programmes d'échange de seringues)
Auteur(s) :
PORTER, J. ;
METZGER, D. ;
SCOTTI R.
Année
2002
Page(s) :
1305-1330
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
29
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAL (Maladies infectieuses / Infectious diseases)
Thésaurus mots-clés
ECHANGE DE SERINGUES
;
REDUCTION DES RISQUES ET DES DOMMAGES
;
PREVENTION
;
VIH
;
DEPISTAGE
;
TRAITEMENT
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Note générale :
Substance Use and Misuse, 2002, 37, (11), 1305-1330
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Using qualitative interviews conducted in 1999, we examine awareness and use of drug user treatment and social service referrals, medical care, and HIV testing provided by needle exchange programs (NEPs) among injectors who use NEPs (N=26) and injectors who get their syringes from other sources (N=20). A four-category typology of NEP service knowledge and use emerges from these interviews: "Active involvement"-use of services, "Steppingstone" no use of services but knowledge that specific services are available; "Vague awareness"-nonspecific knowledge of service avaliability; and "Unaware: no awareness of the service provision function of NEPs. We describe patterns of distribution of respondents among these categories and suggest policy implications. (Editor's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Dept. Sociol., Bryn Mawr Coll., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010. E-mail : jporter@brynmawr.edu
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.