Affiliation:
1. Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) at the University of Maryland, College Park
2. Columbia University. J. L. Mailman School of Public Health and an Investigator at the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine
3. John Hopkins School of Public Health
4. Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School for Public Health
5. Urban Epidemiologic Studies in New York City and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Abstract
This study reports the prevalence of current drug dependence among 226 young recently initiated injection drug users (IDUs) (median age 25 years) recruited from community settings in Baltimore, Maryland. Dependence upon alcohol, cocaine, crack, and heroin was measured in relation to DSM-IV criteria derived from 10 questions from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) (Epstein & Gfroerer, 1997). The proportion of dependence among users for heroin, cocaine, crack, and alcohol was 91%, 42%, 37%, and 21%, respectively. Few significant associations were found between sociodemographic characteristics and drug dependence. Frequency of drug use was strongly associated with alcohol, cocaine, and crack dependence for both males and females; however, for heroin, the association between frequency and dependence was only statistically significant in males. The finding that a high proportion of the individuals in this study meet criteria for dependence underscores the need for appropriate and accessible drug treatment for young injection drug users.
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health (social science),Medicine (miscellaneous)
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