期刊
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
卷 113, 期 1, 页码 76-81出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2010.07.011
关键词
Methamphetamine use; Gender inequities; Street-based sex workers; Risk environment; Safer environment interventions
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [R01DA028648] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Given growing concern of the sexual risks associated with crystal methamphetamine use and the dearth of research characterizing the use of methamphetamine among street-based sex workers (FSWs), this study aimed to characterize the prevalence and individual, social, and structural contexts of crystal methamphetamine use among FSWs in a Canadian setting. Drawing on data from a prospective cohort, we constructed multivariate logistic models to examine independent correlates of crystal methamphetamine among FSWs over a two-year follow-up period using generalized estimating equations. Of a total of 255 street-based FSWs, 78 (32%) reported lifetime crystal methamphetamine use and 24% used crystal methamphetamine during the two-year follow-up period, with no significant associations between methamphetamine use and sexual risk patterns. In a final multivariate GEE model, FSWs who used crystal methamphetamine had a higher proportional odds of dual heroin injection (adjOR = 2.98, 95%Cl: 1.35-5.22), having a primary male sex partner who procures drugs for them (adjOR = 1.79, 95%Cl: 1.02-3.14), and working (adjOR = 1.62, 95%Cl: 1.04-2.65) and living (adjOR = 1.41, 95%Cl: 1.07-1.99) in marginalized public spaces. The findings highlight the crucial need to move beyond the individual to gender-focused safer environment interventions that mediate the physical and social risk environment of crystal methamphetamine use among FSWs. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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