Literature DB >> 8994289

Risk factors for shooting gallery use among drug injectors in Puerto Rico.

J C Reyes1, R R Robles, H M Colón, D H Freeman, H Sahai, T D Matos.   

Abstract

Needle sharing is one of the principal risk behaviors leading to HIV transmission among injection drug users (IDUs). Shooting galleries, a social context where IDUs rent, share, and borrow needles, are locations usually found near drug markets. This study, which interviewed 1,700 IDUs from May 1989 to June 1990, assesses sociodemographic characteristics and HIV risk behaviors among shooting gallery users in Puerto Rico. Multivariate analyses showed that shooting gallery use is associated with speedball (a concoction of heroin and cocaine) injection, income from illegal activities and previous drug treatment. Shooting gallery users were more likely to rent, share, and borrow needles, and less likely to always use bleach and water to clean needles. Strategies to reduce shooting gallery use among drug injectors are discussed.

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Year:  1996        PMID： 8994289

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  P R Health Sci J        ISSN： 0738-0658            Impact factor:   0.705


  8 in total

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Authors:  Morgan Philbin; Robin A Pollini; Rebecca Ramos; Remedios Lozada; Kimberly C Brouwer; Maria Elena Ramos; Michelle Firestone-Cruz; Patricia Case; Steffanie A Strathdee
Journal:  AIDS Behav       Date:  2008-03-28

2.  The social determinants of emergency department and hospital use by injection drug users in Canada.

Authors:  A Palepu; S A Strathdee; R S Hogg; A H Anis; S Rae; P G Cornelisse; D M Patrick; M V O'Shaughnessy; M T Schechter
Journal:  J Urban Health       Date:  1999-12       Impact factor: 3.671

3.  A qualitative exploration of gender in the context of injection drug use in two US-Mexico border cities.

Authors:  Michelle Firestone Cruz; Andrea Mantsios; Rebeca Ramos; Patricia Case; Kimberly C Brouwer; Maria Elena Ramos; Wendy Davila Fraga; Carl A Latkin; Cari L Miller; Steffanie A Strathdee
Journal:  AIDS Behav       Date:  2007-03

4.  Prevalence and correlates of hepatitis C virus infection among street-recruited injection drug users in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Authors:  Juan C Reyes; Héctor M Colón; Rafael R Robles; Eddy Rios; Tomás D Matos; Juan Negrón; Carmen Amalia Marrero; José M Calderón; Elizabeth Shepard
Journal:  J Urban Health       Date:  2006-11       Impact factor: 3.671

5.  Social-level correlates of shooting gallery attendance: a focus on networks and norms.

Authors:  Karin E Tobin; Melissa Davey-Rothwell; Carl A Latkin
Journal:  AIDS Behav       Date:  2010-10

6.  High-risk sexual and drug using behaviors among male injection drug users who have sex with men in 2 Mexico-US border cities.

Authors:  Robert G Deiss; Kimberly C Brouwer; Oralia Loza; Remedios M Lozada; Rebeca Ramos; Michelle A Firestone Cruz; Thomas L Patterson; Douglas D Heckathorn; Simon D Frost; Steffanie A Strathdee
Journal:  Sex Transm Dis       Date:  2008-03       Impact factor: 2.830

7.  Demographic, risk behaviour and personal network variables associated with prevalent hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and HIV infection in injection drug users in Winnipeg, Canada.

Authors:  John L Wylie; Lena Shah; Ann M Jolly
Journal:  BMC Public Health       Date:  2006-09-13       Impact factor: 3.295

8.  Individual, social, and environmental influences associated with HIV infection among injection drug users in Tijuana, Mexico.

Authors:  Steffanie A Strathdee; Remedios Lozada; Robin A Pollini; Kimberly C Brouwer; Andrea Mantsios; Daniela A Abramovitz; Tim Rhodes; Carl A Latkin; Oralia Loza; Jorge Alvelais; Carlos Magis-Rodriguez; Thomas L Patterson
Journal:  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr       Date:  2008-03-01       Impact factor: 3.731
  8 in total

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