“Just another drug” for marginalized users: The risks of using synthetic cathinones among NSP clients in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11110/17:10332512
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14659891.2016.1271034" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14659891.2016.1271034</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2016.1271034" target="_blank" >10.1080/14659891.2016.1271034</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“Just another drug” for marginalized users: The risks of using synthetic cathinones among NSP clients in the Czech Republic
Original language description
Background: In several EU countries, synthetic cathinone (SC) use has spread among injecting drug users (IDUs); it has been linked to risk of dependence and HIV/HCV transmission. Aims: To analyze the association between dependence and risky injecting practice with experimental and repeated SC use in the past 12 months among the clients of needle-syringe programs in the Czech Republic. Methods: IDUs in six locations in the Czech Republic were surveyed in 2013 and 2014 (n = 463). Single-predictor multinomial logit models were run to determine SC use upon the Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) and risky injecting practice; the same predictors were included in the multivariate model with confounders. Findings: SDS score and risky injecting practice were significantly associated with repeated SC use in single-predictor models but not in the multivariate model; SC experimentation was linked to young and male respondents and those who lived in a larger city (>50,000); predictors of repeated SC use were homelessness (AOR = 3.2), co-occurring use of stimulants and opioids (AOR = 4.3), and use of cannabis (AOR = 2.4) in the past month. Conclusions: Repeated SC use was associated with poly-drug use and homelessness; given the rather inferior status of SCs among IDUs, their users face a risk of stigmatization and further marginalization.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30312 - Substance abuse
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Substance Use
ISSN
1465-9891
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
567-573
UT code for WoS article
000416619600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85010702217