Involvement of people who inject drugs in injection initiation events: a cross-sectional analysis identifying similarities and differences across three North American settings.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

People who inject drugs (PWID) play an integral role in facilitating the entry of others into injection drug use (IDU). We sought to assess factors influencing PWID in providing IDU initiation assistance across three distinct North American settings and to generate pooled measures of risk.

Design

We employed data from three PWID cohort studies participating in PReventing Injecting by Modifying Existing Responses (PRIMER), for this cross-sectional analysis.

Setting

Tijuana, Mexico; San Diego, USA; Vancouver, Canada.

Participants

A total of 2944 participants were included in this study (Tijuana: n=766, San Diego: n=353, Vancouver: n=1825).

Measurements

The outcome was defined as recently (ie, past 6 months) assisting in an IDU initiation

SUBMITTER: Marks C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8362731 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature