Open AccessNon-Injection Drug Use Patterns and History of Injection among Street Youth
Author(s) -
Scott E. Hadland,
Thomas Kerr,
Brandon D. L. Marshall,
William Small,
Calvin Lai,
Julio Montaner,
Evan Wood
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european addiction research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.862
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1421-9891
pISSN - 1022-6877
DOI - 10.1159/000279767
Subject(s) - injection drug use , heroin , medicine , drug , drug injection , logistic regression , demography , cohort , young adult , injection site , psychiatry , sociology
Efforts to prevent youth from initiating injection drug use require an understanding of the drug use patterns that predispose to injecting. Here we identify such patterns and describe the circumstances of first injection among street youth.
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