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What Factors Are Associated with High‐Frequency Drug Treatment Use among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Population of Injection Drug Users?
Author(s) -
Chassler Deborah,
Lundgren Lena,
Lonsdale Joya
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1080/10550490600998500
Subject(s) - drug , logistic regression , medicine , population , heroin , demography , ethnically diverse , drug treatment , mental health , percentile , environmental health , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , sociology
This study explored the frequency of drug treatment utilization by 36,081 injection drug users (IDUs) in Massachusetts, 1996–2002. A number of multiple and logistic regression analyses examined the relationship between demographic characteristics, parental status, level of and type of drug use, history of mental health treatment use, types of drug treatment entered, and the number of times an IDU had entered drug treatment for the seven‐year time period. Homelessness, using heroin as the primary drug of choice, and health insurance status were all associated with number of treatments entered. Logistic regression analysis identified that health insurance was a key factor associated with more frequent treatment: those with private health insurance were ten times more likely to be in the 90th percentile (12–107 entries) with respect to number of treatment entries.