Associations among drug acquisition and use behaviors, psychosocial attributes, and opioid-involved overdoses.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study sought to develop and assess an exploratory model of how demographic and psychosocial attributes, and drug use or acquisition behaviors interact to affect opioid-involved overdoses.

Design

We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA/CFA) to identify a factor structure for ten drug acquisition and use behaviors. We then evaluated alternative structural equation models incorporating the identified factors, adding demographic and psychosocial attributes as predictors of past-year opioid overdose.

Setting and participants

We used interview data collected for two studies recruiting opioid-misusing participants receiving services from a community-based syringe services program. The first investigated current attitudes toward drug-checking

SUBMITTER: Swartz JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11197316 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature