Substance use and high risk sexual behaviors among women in psychosocial outpatient and methadone maintenance treatment programs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of the present study was to assess the association between substance use/diagnosis and sexual risk behaviors among women enrolled in both psychosocial outpatient (PS) and methadone maintenance (MM) treatment and involved in a HIV prevention intervention study within the National Institute for Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network.

Methods

515 sexually active women reported on unprotected sexual occasions (USO), anal sex, sex trading, sex with drug occasions, and multiple male sex partners at the baseline assessment.

Results

Within the PS sample, cocaine use diagnosis was associated with more than twice the risk of having multiple partners, trading sex for drugs, having anal sex, or having sex with drugs; alcohol or opioid use diagnosis was associat

SUBMITTER: Tross S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2846384 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature