TY - JOUR
T1 - Lifetime complications of drug use in intravenous drug users
AU - Dinwiddie, Stephen H.
AU - Reich, Theodore
AU - Cloninger, C. Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was supported by Training Grant numbers MH-14677 Dinwiddie), grant number AA-08028 (Dr. Cloninger), and grant numbers (Dr. Reich). We thank Kathleen Bucholz, Eugene H. Rubin, and Andrew on an earlier draft of this paper. Correspondence and requests for reprints should be sent to Stephen Dinwiddie, Department Psychiatry, Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, 216 South Kingshighway, St. Louis, MO 63110.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Ninety-two intravenous drug users (IVDUs) were identified from a study of 1,640 relatives of treated alcoholics and felons. Nearly all of the IVDUs (90%) reported a lifetime history of some degree of physical, psychological, or social difficulty related to drug abuse, but only 35% had ever received treatment for drug abuse. Overall, compared to subjects with a history of substantial illicit drug use who had never injected, IVDUs were significantly more likely to report all drug-related problems assessed. Even in populations of drug users not selected through treatment, any history of intravenous (IV) drug use is strongly indicative of a lifetime occurrence of complications of drug use.
AB - Ninety-two intravenous drug users (IVDUs) were identified from a study of 1,640 relatives of treated alcoholics and felons. Nearly all of the IVDUs (90%) reported a lifetime history of some degree of physical, psychological, or social difficulty related to drug abuse, but only 35% had ever received treatment for drug abuse. Overall, compared to subjects with a history of substantial illicit drug use who had never injected, IVDUs were significantly more likely to report all drug-related problems assessed. Even in populations of drug users not selected through treatment, any history of intravenous (IV) drug use is strongly indicative of a lifetime occurrence of complications of drug use.
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U2 - 10.1016/0899-3289(92)90023-Q
DO - 10.1016/0899-3289(92)90023-Q
M3 - Article
C2 - 1320970
AN - SCOPUS:0026478096
SN - 0899-3289
VL - 4
SP - 13
EP - 18
JO - Journal of Substance Abuse
JF - Journal of Substance Abuse
IS - 1
ER -
