Open AccessContraceptive practices among female heroin addicts.
Author(s) -
Norbert Ralph,
Clarence Spigner
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.76.8.1016
Subject(s) - medicine , heroin , demography , ethnic group , marital status , population , psychiatry , environmental health , drug , sociology , anthropology
In a sample of 115 heroin-addicted women, 25.8 per cent reported any type of contraception compared to 48.5 per cent of a national sample. Matching for age, ethnic group, and income level, reported contraceptive rates for the heroin-addicted sample versus the national sample for the never married, married, and formerly married groups were 40.1 per cent versus 37.7 per cent; 64.9 per cent versus 22.0 per cent; and 51.9 per cent versus 19.9 per cent, respectively.
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