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...
Both a prior experience of homelessness and currently being homeless are both strongly associated with both higher levels of lifetime exposure to drug and sexual risk as well as higher levels of current drug and sexual risk. Onset of these risks occur earlier in both groups that have had an ...
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Nowhere is the need more urgent than on the drug-abuse front, where marijuana use is up a staggering 200 percent among 14- to 15-year-olds and 137 percent among 12- to 13-year-olds.After years of progress in the fight against drug abuse, the numbers suggest a frightening reversal. ...
Over 20% of notified UK-born TB cases report at least one of homelessness, drug misuse, alcohol abuse, or history of prison stay, compared to 10% in foreign-born cases10. Subjects with such social risk factors are younger (about 60% aged 15–44 years), more likely to be from White ...
Bobby Brown, the R&B sensation who rose to fame as a member of New Edition and subsequently as a successful solo artist, has had his fair share of struggles with drug addiction. His tumultuous marriage to Whitney Houston and their well-documented substance abuse issues often overshadowed ...
Significantly more females than males were characterized by unstable housing or 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 ...
2022 REPORT: Drug overdoses leading cause of Travis County accidental deaths “The sad thing is that we could do different things to prevent those deaths that we’re not doing at the state level and we clearly need to do more at the local level, too, to address...
https://www.domesticpreparedness.com/healthcare/drugs-homelessness-a-growing-public-health-disaster/and in the Dom Prep Journal, December 2019. 2) A 4-Week Online Course on A National Public Health Disaster: Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Opioid Crisis ~ The Role That Marijuana Use & Legaliz...
Results Prevalences of 12-month and lifetime drug abuse (1.4% and 7.7%, respectively) exceeded rates of drug dependence (0.6% and 2.6%, respectively). Rates of abuse and dependence were generally greater among men, Native Americans, respondents aged 18 to 44 years, those of lower socioeconom...