Recent incarceration and risk of first-time injection initiation assistance: A prospective cohort study of persons who inject drugs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the prevalence and harms of incarceration among persons who inject drugs (PWID) and their role in injection drug use initiation, we aimed to investigate whether recent incarceration influences the likelihood PWID assist others in their first-ever injection.

Methods

Prospective cohort study of PWID in Vancouver, Canada who had their PReventing Injecting by Modifying Existing Responses (PRIMER) baseline visit between December 2014 and May 2017, reported never providing injection initiation assistance previously, and had ≥1 follow-up visit. The primary outcome, provision of injection initiation assistance, was defined via self-report as helping anybody inject for the first time in the past six months. The primary exposure was recent incarceration, i.e., self-re

SUBMITTER: Bouck Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7293943 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature