Beyond income: Material resources among drug users in economically-disadvantaged New York City neighborhoods

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 127-134

  Ompad, Danielle C ^a,b,c   Nandi, Vijay ^b   Cerdá, Magdalena ^c   Crawford, Natalie ^c   Galea, Sandro ^c   Vlahov, David ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Former drug users; Injection drug users; Material deprivation; Non injection drug users; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BASIC NEEDS; BISEXUALITY; CAUCASIAN; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABUSE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HISPANIC; HOMELESSNESS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; LESBIAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGRO; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIABILITY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; POVERTY; POVERTY AREAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84155172813     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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