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Trends of HIV-1 Risk Reduction among Initiates into Intravenous Drug Use 1982–1987
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Vlahov, David Anthony, James C. Celentano, David Solomon, Liza Chowdhury, Nurul |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Description | Journal: The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse To assess how injection practices may have changed during the course of the AIDS epidemic, active intravenous drug users (IVDUs) recruited from the community were asked to report year of first injection as well as specific details about the first 3 months after initial injection: frequencies of injection, using sterile needles, sharing needles and other equipment. For the analysis, the users were sorted into successive cohorts of initiation (by year of first injection), and tests for trends were completed using Mantel-Haenszel statistics. Among the 421 IVDUs who reported first injection between 1982 and 1987, the use of new sterile needles to self-administer drugs increased (p <. 05) along with its corollary behavior (i.e., using equipment one is sure that no one else had used before). Conversely, there was a decrease in the proportion of those who always used equipment previously used by another IVDU (p <. 05) and a decrease in the number of needle-sharing partners (p <. 01). Over the 6 years, heroin as first drug decreased and cocaine increased (p <. 01). Although these data are from a cross-sectional interview study, they suggest a shift toward lower risk practices among new IVDUs between 1982 and 1987. The shift from heroin to cocaine is compatible with other evidence on the cocaine epidemic. |
| Related Links | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/00952999108992808 |
| Ending Page | 48 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| Starting Page | 39 |
| ISSN | 00952990 |
| e-ISSN | 10979891 |
| DOI | 10.3109/00952999108992808 |
| Journal | The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 1991-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse Biomedical Social Sciences Risk Reduction Intravenous Drug Use Reduction Among Initiates Initiates Into Intravenous |
| Content Type | Text |
| Subject | Clinical Psychology Psychiatry and Mental Health |
