A number of these studies have also highlighted the prevalence of a host of early negative life events among homeless youth, and noted that they are strongly correlated with drug abuse, particularly in homeless YMSM (Kipke et al., 1993; Sibthorpe, Drinkwater, Gardner, & Bammer, 1995; ...
The objective of this paper is to profile the role of homelessness in drug and sexual risk in a population of young men who have sex with men (YMSM). Data are from a cross-sectional survey collected between 2000 and 2001 in New York City ( N = 569). With the goal of examining the...
The coronavirus pandemic took an enormous toll on Californians, especially those addicted to drugs. We still don’t understand the true depth of the pandemic’s effects in many areas, but here are two things we know for sure: fewer people sought addiction treatment during the pandemic, and the...
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Drug addiction, otherwise known as substance use disorder, is defined as a mental disorder that causes an individual to compulsively consume a substance and can also be indicated by the voluntary misuse and abuse of drugs or substances despite the severe negative side effects it has on an ...
self-reported injection drug use in the past year, current LRCA substance abuse treatment for more than 4 days (total treatment varies from 7 days to 4 weeks), being 18 to 30 years old, being able to sign informed consent, not currently in any other research study, and providing verifiabl...
Drug Abuse and Mental Illnesses are Commonly Combined As mentioned above, it’s very common for individualsstruggling with substance useto also face some sort of mental disorder. There are also instances wheredrugscan commence a mental disorder. In an example, psychedelic substances (such as LSD,...
Dupont, the former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is reflective of the fact that marijuana had still not received full social acceptability in the United States as of 1980. It is also reflective of the confu- sion and controversy surrounding the regulation of the substance. ...
homelessness. Close to half of men, and one third of females had been arrested in the past year. Both men and women had a variety of income sources; while the most common income sources for men were employment or some sort of paid work, more women relied on sex work and/or begging/...
Alcohol and drug addiction severely contribute to the disease burden (e.g. cardiovascular, sepsis, cancer, suicide, depression, anxiety), and worsen the social and economic situation (e.g. unemployment, homelessness, incarceration, child neglect) [1,2,3]. In Sweden, there is an inverse relati...