Drug arrests and injection drug deterrence.
OBJECTIVES: We tested the hypothesis that higher rates of previous hard drug-related arrests predict lower rates of injection drug use. METHODS: We analyzed drug-related arrest data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program for 93 large US metropolitan statistical ar...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 101; no. 2; pp. 344 - 350 |
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American Public Health Association
Feb2011
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104993005&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104993005 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00900036 APH jtl: American Journal of Public Health issn: 00900036 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2011 vid: 101 iid: 2 pid: 44 pub: American Public Health Association place: Washington, District of Columbia artinfo: ui: 104993005 57593566 2010914826 10.2105/AJPH.2010.191759 NLM21164088 104993005 ppf: 344 ppct: 6 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Drug arrests and injection drug deterrence. aug: au: Friedman, Samuel R Pouget, Enrique R Chatterjee, Sudip Cleland, Charles M Tempalski, Barbara Brady, Joanne E Cooper, Hannah L F affil: National Development and Research Institutes, Inc, New York, NY sug: subj: Crime Trends Substance Abuse Detection Substance Abuse, Intravenous Prevention and Control Substance Abuse, Intravenous Trends Administrative Research Correlational Studies Descriptive Statistics Funding Source HIV Infections Transmission Human Linear Regression Models, Statistical Utilization Predictive Validity Prevalence Prospective Studies Sensitivity and Specificity United States Urban Areas ab: OBJECTIVES: We tested the hypothesis that higher rates of previous hard drug-related arrests predict lower rates of injection drug use. METHODS: We analyzed drug-related arrest data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program for 93 large US metropolitan statistical areas in 1992 to 2002 to predict previously published annual estimates of the number of injection drug users (IDUs) per 10,000 population. RESULTS: In linear mixed-effects regression, hard drug-related arrest rates were positively associated (parameter = +1.59; SE = 0.57) with the population rate of IDUs in 1992 and were not associated with change in the IDU rate over time (parameter = -0.15; SE = 0.39). CONCLUSIONS: Deterrence-based approaches to reducing drug use seem not to reduce IDU prevalence. Alternative approaches such as harm reduction, which prevents HIV transmission and increases referrals to treatment, may be a better foundation for policy. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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