Stimulant Use Associated With Psychosocial Factors, HIV Risk, and Concurrent Hazardous Alcohol Use Among US Adults: Exploratory Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stimulant use is a major public health problem that contributes to morbidity and mortality among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States. To reduce the harms associated with stimulant use, there is a need to identify the factors associated with stimulant use to inform interventions. Additionally, there is a need to use large crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to engage more individuals who use substances across the United States.

Objective

We identified the correlates of stimulant use among people who use alcohol or stimulants in the United States recruited using MTurk.

Methods

Participants who were aged ≥18 years in the United States and reported alcohol or stimulant (ie, cocaine, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine) us

SUBMITTER: Lee F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10472175 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature