Potential risk factors for injecting among Mexican American non-injecting heroin users

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 49-73

  Valdez, Avelardo ^a   Neaigus, Alan ^b   Cepeda, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Injecting; Mexican Americans; Non injecting heroin; Transitioning

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TEXAS;

EID: 38049031761     PISSN: 15332640     EISSN: 15332659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J233v06n02_05     Document Type: Article

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