Polysubstance Use Patterns among Justice-Involved Individuals Who Use Opioids.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The current study explores pre-incarceration polysubstance use patterns among a justice-involved population who use opioids. Design: Setting: Data from prison and jail substance use programing in the state of Kentucky from 2015-2017 was examined. Participants: A cohort of 6,569 individuals who reported both pre-incarceration use of opioids and reported the use of more than one substance per day. Measurements: To determine the different typologies of polysubstance use involving opioids, latent profile analysis of the pre-incarceration thirty-day drug use of eight substances was conducted. Multinomial logistic regression predicted latent profile membership. Findings: Six unique profiles of polysubstance use involving opioids and other substances were f

SUBMITTER: Bunting AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7484418 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature