Sex and drugs: The correlations of injecting drug users' risk perception and behavioral patterns

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 569-577

  Márványkövi, Ferenc ^a   Melles, Katalin ^a   Rácz, József ^a,b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Injecting drug use; Risk environment; Risk perception; Risky behavior

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; METHADONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INJECTION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNSAFE SEX;

ADULT; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MALE; NEEDLE SHARING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149172385     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10826080802487283     Document Type: Article

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