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Alcohol and other drug use among homeless and at-isk young people in inner city Brisbane: Findings from the Brisbane Youth Service Drug and Alcohol Questionnaire 1998 - 2007 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 34 作者:J George,SA Kinner,A Barnes ...
Drug use among the young homeless: coping through self-medication Research has shown that illicit drug use is now a common feature of homelessness. A main aim of the study was to examine the role that drugs played in the ... Hilary,Klee,Paul,... - 《Health》 被引量: 40发表: 1998年...
"Hustling" or sex work is a common means of surviving on the streets and paying for drugs among homeless youth. In this article, we formulate the concepts of "street capital" and "street competencies" to describe how 10 young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in New York City accumulate...
This study conducted in the Ahvaz Correction Centre (ACC) in 2008 explored the relationship between variables such as drug abuse and sexual abuse and homelessness among children. The sample consisted of 28 children (mean age=14.5years) selected by snowball sampling. Data were collected by social ...
Few YMSM had used drug prior to becoming homeless. While causal inferences are subject to the limitations of a cross-sectional design, the findings pose an empirical challenge to the prevailing assumption that prior drug use is a dominant causal factor in YMSM becoming homeless. More broadly, ...
Differential reporting of drug use among gay, bisexual and transgender stimulant-using homeless adults post interventionHomeless G/B menself-report of drug use vs. urinalysisstimulant usersHomeless gay and bisexual (G/B) men, and transgender female stimulant users are at high risk for continued ...
Almost one-fourth of the sample identified drug use as the primary reason for their homelessness. Drug use was most prevalent among people who had been homeless for six months to three years and less prevalent among newly homeless people and people who had been homeless four years or more. ...
As in other studies, sexual abuse was more common among females than among males. High prevalence of sexual abuse, alcohol and other drug use, and suicidal behaviors in this sample of homeless youth underscores the need to develop and test community-based interventions to improve their health ...
We also show the prevalence and timing of selected high risk behaviours, including the onset of both drug use and sexual risk, with the overall goal of illuminating the role of homelessness in increasing risk for negative health outcomes among YMSM....