Injecting drug use opportunities and reasons for choosing not to inject: A population-based study of Australian young adults who use stimulants.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Understanding reasons for choosing not to inject drugs, among those who have never injected before, may be helpful for reducing transitions to injecting drug use. This study examines opportunities to inject and reasons for never injecting in young adults who used stimulants.

Methods

Data are from a population-based study of young adults who used ecstasy and methamphetamine (n = 313), recruited in Queensland, Australia in 2008/2009. At the follow-up, participants who had never injected (n = 293) completed a 13-item instrument on reasons for never injecting. We conducted a principal components analysis to identify types of reasons (scored 0-100) and multivariate regression to predict endorsement of these reasons.

Results

Approximately one-in-five of all par

SUBMITTER: Casey LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9305533 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature