Income generating activities of people who inject drugs.

Income generating activities of people who inject drugs. Research Abstract Details 

Research Abstract Table of Contents

Jump to the:

Income generating activities of people who inject drugs. Abstract Text:

Kora DeBeck,Kate Shannon,Evan Wood,Kathy Li,Julio Montaner,Thomas Kerr,Kora DeBeck,Kate Shannon,Evan Wood,Kathy Li,Julio Montaner,Thomas Kerr,

BACKGROUND: Injection drug users (IDU) commonly generate income through prohibited activities, such as drug dealing and sex trade work, which carry significant risk. However, little is known about the IDU who engage in such activities and the role of active drug use in perpetuating this behavior. METHODS: We evaluated factors associated with prohibited income generation among participants enrolled in the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study (VIDUS) using logistic and linear regression. We also examined which sources of income respondents would eliminate if they did not require money to pay for drugs. RESULTS: Among 275 IDU, 145 (53%) reported engaging in prohibited income generating activities in the past 30 days. Sex work and drug dealing accounted for the greatest amount of income generated. Non-aboriginal females were the group most likely to report prohibited income generation. Other variables independently associated with prohibited income generation include daily heroin injection (AOR=2.3) and daily use of crack cocaine (AOR=3.5). Among these individuals, 68 (47%) indicated they would forgo these earnings if they did not require money for illegal drugs, with those engaged in sex trade work (62%) being most willing to give up their illegal source of income. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that the costs associated with illicit drugs are compelling IDU, particularly those possessing markers of higher intensity addiction, to engage in prohibited income generating activities. These findings also point to an opportunity to explore interventions that relieve the financial pressure of purchasing illegal drugs and reduce engagement in such activities, such as low threshold employment and expansion of prescription and substitution therapies.

Income generating activities of people who inject drugs. Publishing Authors By Initials

K DeBeck,K Shannon,E Wood,K Li,J Montaner,T Kerr,K DeBeck,K Shannon,E Wood,K Li,J Montaner,T Kerr,

For similar abstracts research abstracts see: abstracts research

PUBMED ID PMID:

MEDLINE DATE:

Income generating activities of people who inject drugs. Journal Published:

PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov

Journal: Drug and alcohol dependence

VOLUME: 91

Page Numbers: 50-6

Journal Abbreviation:

ISSN: 0376-8716

DAY: 11

MONTH: 06

YEAR: 2007

Income generating activities of people who inject drugs. Information

Number of References:

LANGUAGE: eng

NlmUniqueID: 7513587

Income generating activities of people who inject drugs. Keywords Mesh Terms:

KEYWORDS:

MESH TERMS:

Chemical & Substance for Abstract: Income generating activities of people who inject drugs. Information

Substance Name:

Registry Number:

Grant and Affiliation Information for Income generating activities of people who inject drugs.

AFFILIATION: British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, University of British Columbia, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1Y6, Canada.

Country: Ireland

AGENCY: United States NIDA

GRANT: R01 DA011591-06

ACRONYM: DA

MEDLINETA: Drug Alcohol Depend

REFSOURCE:

DATABASENAME:

ACCESSION NUMBER:

Number Hits: 0

Income generating activities of people who inject drugs Related Publications

• 2006 rare neuroimmunological disorders symposium; Sheraton Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD, July 20-23, 2006.
• Barriers and facilitators to methadone maintenance therapy use among illicit opiate injection drug users in Vancouver.
• Bulking agents in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence: history, outcomes, patient populations, and reimbursement profile.
• Can an expanded and integrated occupational health service help buffer the impact of a global influenza outbreak in healthcare organizations?
• Can nurses apply the Canadian C-Spine Rule? A pilot study.
• Demonstration of 5-HT(3) receptor function and expression in the mouse bladder.
• Diprosopus with multiple craniofacial, musculoskeletal, and cardiac defects in a purebred Suffolk lamb.
• Diversity of the bacterial communities associated with the azooxanthellate deep water octocorals Leptogorgia minimata, Iciligorgia schrammi, and Swiftia exertia.
• Domoic acid preconditioning and seizure induction in young and aged rats.
• Elevated syringe borrowing among men who have sex with men: a prospective study.
• Examination of homo-[3 + 2]-dipolar cycloaddition: mechanistic insight into regio- and diastereoselectivity.
• Factors Affecting Rural Medicine: an improvement on the Rurality Index of Ontario.
• First, do no harm: A modern approach to the holistic management of keratoconus.
• FloWatch versus conventional pulmonary artery banding.
• Frequent needle exchange use and HIV incidence in Vancouver, Canada.
• Global warming. How urgent is climate change?
• Hip Pain-Football: 1100: June 1 9:20 AM 9:40 AM.
• Imaging the activity of neurons and muscles.
• Income generating activities of people who inject drugs.
• Induced SHIP deficiency expands myeloid regulatory cells and abrogates graft-versus-host disease.
• Isodomoic acids A and C exhibit low KA receptor affinity and reduced in vitro potency relative to domoic acid in region CA1 of rat hippocampus.
• Knee Injury - Soccer: 988: May 30 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM.
• Lactate response in anaerobic and aerobic athletes and sedentary individuals: 1605: board #95 may 30 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM.
• Overcoming the influence of chronic pain on older patients' difficulty with recommended self-management activities.
• Planetary science. Majority rules in finding a path for the next Mars Rover.
• Planning and control of sequential rapid aiming in adults with Parkinson's disease.
• Safety and effectiveness of topical dry mouth products containing olive oil, betaine, and xylitol in reducing xerostomia for polypharmacy-induced dry mouth.
• The cycloaddition of nitrones with homochiral cyclopropanes.
• The diversity of the bacterial communities associated with the azooxanthellate hexacoral Cirrhipathes lutkeni.
• Vascular calcification and arterial stiffness in chronic kidney disease: implications and management.