Patterns of smoking and injecting methamphetamine and their association with health and social outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We examine how smoking and injecting methamphetamine change over time and correlate with specific health and social outcomes.

Methods

Panel data from a longitudinal cohort dependent on methamphetamine (N = 444; 891 months). Random effects regression models examined the relationship between smoking and/or injecting methamphetamine and past month outcomes (substance use, ≥daily injection, needle/syringe sharing, psychological distress, poor mental and physical health, sexual behaviour, psychotic symptoms, violent behaviour and crime). Effects were adjusted for between-group differences at baseline.

Results

At baseline, 56% of participants only injected methamphetamine in the past month, 18% only smoked and 26% both injected and smoked (concurrent injecting

SUBMITTER: McKetin R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292494 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature