Titre : | Syringe source, use and discard among injection-drug users in New Haven, Connecticut |
Titre traduit : | (Approvisionnement de seringues, leur usage et leur élimination chez les usagers de drogues par voie intraveineuse à New Haven, Connecticut) |
Auteurs : | K. KHOSHNOOD ; K. M. BLANKENSHIP ; H. A. POLLACK ; ROAN C. T. ; F. L. ALTICE |
Type de document : | Périodique |
Année de publication : | 2000 |
Format : | 88-94 / tabl. |
Note générale : |
AIDS and Public Policy Journal, 2000, 15, (3/4), 88-94 |
Langues: | Français |
Discipline : | PRE (Prévention - RdRD / Prevention - Harm reduction) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés ECHANGE DE SERINGUES ; PARTAGE DE SERINGUE ; CONDUITE A RISQUE ; EPIDEMIOLOGIEThésaurus géographique ETATS-UNIS |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : We examined syringe source, use, and discard practices of injection-drug users (IDUs) in New Haven, Connecticut, a city with both a legal syringe-exchange program (SEP) and non-prescription availability of syringes through pharmacies. The population demographics, syringe use, and discard practices of IDUs who obtained syringes from various sources were compared using structured interview data. Of the 373 IDUs recruited, 268 (72 percent) resided in the city of New Haven. Among the New Haven IDUs, 111 (41 percent) reported pharmacies, 36 (13 percent) reported the New Haven SEP, 90 (34 percent) reported both, and 27 (10 percent) reported neither as their usual source of syringes in the past six months. No significant differences (p value |
Note de contenu : | tabl. |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Affiliation : |
Dpt of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale Univ. School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut Etats-Unis. United States. |
Numéro Toxibase : | 1300577 |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | A01305 |
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