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Benissa E Salem1, Adeline Nyamathi, Colleen Keenan, Sheldon Zhang, Elizabeth Marlow, Farinaz Khalilifard, Kartik Yadav, Mark Faucette, Barbara Leake, Mary Marfisee.
Abstract
Homeless men on parole are a hard-to-reach population with significant community reintegration challenges. This cross-sectional study describes sociodemographic, cognitive, psychosocial, and drug-related correlates of alcohol and methamphetamine use in 157 homeless male parolees (age range 18-60) enrolled in a substance abuse treatment center in Los Angeles, California. Logistic regression results revealed that being African American and older were negatively related to methamphetamine use, whereas being older and more hostile were related to riskier alcohol abuse. Findings from this study provide a greater understanding of correlates of methamphetamine and alcohol--two of the most detrimental forms of substances abused among currently homeless parolees.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24325770 PMCID: PMC3908772 DOI: 10.1080/10550887.2013.849973
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Addict Dis ISSN: 1055-0887