The association between social marginalisation and the injecting of alcohol amongst IDUs in Budapest, Hungary

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 393-397

  Gyarmathy, V Anna ^a,b   Neaigus, Alan ^c  

^a EUROPEAN MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUG ADDICTION   (Portugal)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Central Europe; Hungary; Injecting drug use; Risk behaviours

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUNGARY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTTIME EMPLOYMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; DRUG USERS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80052935057     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: 18734758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. AH&MRC Consultancy Service & Mandala Consulting (2004). Increasing access to services in NSW for Aboriginal people at risk of contracting or who have blood borne infections. Technical report available at. http://www.ahmrc.org.au/Downloads/BBIreport.pdf.
2. Ball A. Drug use and HIV/AIDS. Summary of Papers Given in Track D of the XIIth International AIDS Conference WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HSI) 1998.
3. DeBeck K., Small W., Wood E., Li K., Montaner J., Kerr T. Public injecting among a cohort of injecting drug users in Vancouver Canada. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009, 63(1):81-86.
4. Des Jarlais D.C., Perlis T.E., Stimson G.V., Poznyak V. Using standardized methods for research on HIV and injecting drug use in developing/transitional countries: Case study from the WHO Drug Injection Study Phase II. BMC Public Health 2006, 6:54.
5. Dubois-Arber F., Balthasar H., Huissoud T., Zobel F., Arnaud S., Samitca S., et al. Trends in drug consumption and risk of transmission of HIV and hepatitis C virus among injecting drug users in Switzerland, 1993-2006. Eurosurveillance 2008, 13.
6. Epele M.E. Memory, forgetting, and economic crisis: Drug use and social fragmentation in an Argentine shantytown. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2010, 24:22-41.
7. European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (2010). EMCDDA 2010 Selected issue-Trends in injecting drug use in Europe. Luxembourg: 13 Publications Office of the European Union.
8. Flemen, K. (2008). Safer Injecting Resource Pack. KFx Learning of Substance. Technical report available at. http://www.kfx.org.uk/resources/nx08.pdf.
9. George, J., Fetherston, J., Lenton S., & Santana L. (2008). WA drug trends 2008. Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) (Rep. No. NDARC Technical Report No. 25).
10. Gerevich J., Bacskai E., Czobor P., Szabo J. Substance use in Roma and non-Roma adolescents. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2010, 198:432-436.
11. Gossop M., Griffiths P., Powis B., Strang J. Severity of dependence and route of administration of heroin, cocaine and amphetamines. British Journal of Addiction 1992, 87:1527-1536.
12. Grund, J.-P., Öfner, P. J., & Verbraeck, H. T. (2000). Marel o Del, kas kamel, le Romes duvar (God hits whom he chooses; the Rom gets hit twice). An exploration of drug use and HIV risks among the Roma of central and eastern Europe Amsterdam, The Netherlands: DV8, Research, Training and Development Project Group Roma & Drugs.
13. Gyarmathy V.A., Neaigus A. Marginalized and socially integrated groups of IDUs in Hungary: Potential bridges of HIV infection. Journal of Urban Health 2005, 82:iv101-iv112.
14. Gyarmathy V.A., Neaigus A., Miller M., Friedman S.R., Des Jarlais D.C. Risk correlates of prevalent HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections among noninjecting heroin users. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2002, 30(4):448-456.
15. Gyarmathy V.A., Neaigus A., Mitchell M.M., Ujhelyi E. The association of syringe type and syringe cleaning with HCV infection among IDUs in Budapest Hungary. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2009, 100:240-247.
16. Gyarmathy V.A., Neaigus A., Ujhelyi E. Vulnerability to drug-related infections and co-infections among injecting drug users in Budapest Hungary. European Journal of Public Health 2009, 19:260-265.
17. Gyarmathy V.A., Neaigus A., Ujhelyi E., Szabo T., Racz J. Strong HIV and hepatitis disclosure norms and frequent risk behaviors among Hungarian drug injectors. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2006, 82(Suppl. 1):S65-S69.
18. Lindenburg C.E., Krol A., Smit C., Buster M.C., Coutinho R.A., Prins M. Decline in HIV incidence and injecting, but not in sexual risk behaviour, seen in drug users in Amsterdam: A 19-year prospective cohort study. AIDS 2006, 20:1771-1775.
19. Mahdi A.S., McBride A.J. Intravenous injection of alcohol by drug injectors: Report of three cases. Alcohol and Alcoholism 1999, 34(6):918-919.
20. Molnar A., Adany R., Adam B., Gulis G., Kosa K. Health impact assessment and evaluation of a Roma housing project in Hungary. Health & Place 2010, 16:1240-1247.
21. Neaigus A., Gyarmathy V.A., Miller M., Frajzyngier V., Zhao M., Friedman S.R., et al. Injecting and sexual risk correlates of HBV and HCV seroprevalence among new drug injectors. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2007, 89(2-3):234-243.
22. Neaigus A., Zhao M., Gyarmathy V.A., Cisek L., Friedman S.R., Baxter R.C. Greater drug injecting risk for HIV HBV, and HCV infection in a city where syringe exchange and pharmacy syringe distribution are illegal. Journal of Urban Health 2008, 85(3):309-322.
23. Newman J., Moon C. NT trends in ecstasy and related drug markets 2004. Findings from the Party Drug Initiative (PDI) (Rep. No. NDARC Technical Report No. 222) 2004, NDARC.
24. Page J.B., Miguez-Burbano M.J. Parenteral injection of alcohol: Early warning of an emergent trend in Colombia?. Medical Anthropology 2000, 18:351-363.
25. Richardson L., Wood E., Li K., Kerr T. Factors associated with employment among a cohort of injection drug users. Drug and Alcohol Review 2010, 29(3):293-300.
26. Voko Z., Csepe P., Nemeth R., Kosa K., Kosa Z., Szeles G., et al. Does socioeconomic status fully mediate the effect of ethnicity on the health of Roma people in Hungary?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009, 63:455-460.