Titre : | Early onset of drug and polysubstance use as predictors of injection drug use among adult drug users (2012) |
Auteurs : | R. C. TRENZ ; M. SCHERER ; P. HARRELL ; J. ZUR ; A. SINHA ; W. W. LATIMER |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Addictive Behaviors (Vol.37, n°4, April 2012) |
Article en page(s) : | 367-372 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés PRECOCITE ; PRODUIT ILLICITE ; POLYCONSOMMATION ; INITIATION ; FACTEUR PREDICTIF ; INJECTION ; ADULTE ; ENQUETE ; EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE ; PREVALENCE ; ALCOOL ; TABACThésaurus géographique ETATS-UNIS |
Résumé : | Early onset of alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette use is an indicator of later substance use problems in adulthood such as alcohol or other drug dependence. This paper seeks to address the association between early onset alcohol, marijuana, cigarette, and polysubstance use with injection drug use among recent illicit drug users. The current study used baseline data from the Baltimore site of the NEURO-HIV Epidemiologic Study, an investigation of neuropsychological and social-behavioral risk factors of HIV, hepatitis A. hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C among both injection and non-injection drug users in Baltimore, Maryland. The present study used a subset (N=651) of the larger parent study that identified as White or Black, and reported any drug use in the past 6 months. In the full sample slightly more than half (52.5%) of study participants were IDUs. IDUs differed from non-IDUs on age of initiation for cigarettes, marijuana, and alcohol, with IDUs initiating the use of all three substances significantly earlier than non-IDUs. IDUs also had significantly greater proportions of early onset of alcohol (chi²=19.71, p<.01 cigarette p marijuana and polysubstance use than non-idus. after adjusting for age gender race only participants identified as early onset alcohol users ci: were more likely to have idu status those who reported initiating substance later. iou was then stratified by controlling a significant predictor of whites consistent with literature on initiation later illicit is an important risk factor in adulthood. elsevier ltd. all rights reserved.> |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Affiliation : | Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA |
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