Participants also were asked to select whether they had ever used 11 types of recreational drugs (e.g., marijuana, hallucinogens, club drugs, opiates, cocaine) from a list (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Investigator-created items assessing lifetime frequency of using alcohol...
Black males are more likely to overdose on heroin (29.2%), while Black female acute reactions occur most frequently from the ingestion of tranquilizers (27.4%). 13. There exist several different race-sex patterns for the abuse of the various substances (e.g., heroin, hallucinogens, sedatives...
Many have a substance abuse history: 62% have used cocaine, 63% have used marijuana, 25% have used heroin, 21% have used hallucinogens, and 15% have used amphetamines. Approximately one woman in three has engaged in sex work or survival sex and more than half (52%) have had an STD ...